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Herman Rubin I just mean a not-particularly-complex program that looks for and changes your symbology into the functions that you hate to type out in full. Advanced Search&Replace Eh? you...
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to source By telling him to get somebody else to do the work. He would have long time ago if that had been an option (he is an academic). Your list of...
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I did. I also understand how difficult it is to figure out what Herman means. I've had a...
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Ah, my memory here is still, I think, reliable as to this; while IIRC you were always more interested in big iron, I...
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fOn Wed, 20 Apr 2005 15:38:02 -0700 in alt.folklore.computers, glen MMU mapping (and interrupt handling) was done in kernel mode, on CPUs and OSes that supported kernel and user modes and register sets...
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Yes, though the heat might be more of a problem than the magnetic flux. In the 1980s PC...
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That is what he thinks he wants. Examine the problems he has and the thinking path he took to suggest a solution...
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Oddly enough, I do; does he understand that a week after a commercial product came out, he'd be complaining that it wasn't flexible enough compared with the old...
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But he wouldn't be complaining about that. I think that you don't know the nature of the work that a math...
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It's a grand match. I just read David Powell's. Sure, the ones made by the bank. However, this doesn't include the ones not made by the bank. I...
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Never attribute to malice, that which can be adequately explained by incompetence. First it was not "counterfeit currency" -- just vouchers that were...
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rpl That's clever. How does he know the price of loose goods like fruit and vegetables which are sold by weight, when the scales are part of the...
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Charlie Gibbs With a 5c coin, the normal, but not Govt mandated, rounding is the "Swedish" system (I wonder how they got that name?) which is rounding to the...
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I hadn't thought of that one. I'm still bristling at the way the cashier flings a wad of change at me with the...
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It is a common misconception that mathematicians are adept at arithmetic, or that they "think" decimally. I am quite adept at arithmetic, and due to long practice, am quite used to thinking somewhat decimally...
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I don't think we really called that multiplying in the complex cases either. I think "expanding" might be a more accurate translation ... but anyone who figured out measuring angles in radians couldn't have...
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I don't think I met radians until college. I had extreme culture shock and still can seem to do angle math. I kept getting dizzy going around in cicles. And...
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Quoting Keith's post, as I haven't seen Peter's. I still have a slide rule sitting on a shelf here in my office - a plastic Sterling ACU-MATH 600 - but...
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They did plenty of that, too. But in the time it takes to graph a couple of variations by hand...
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A few years back there was a popular scheme involving gasoline pumps, mostly at no-name "shop and go" stations...
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Fortunatly that is illegal under several sets of legislation here. There is a ton of precedence that the contract the customer enters...
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I wouldn't really know about that, we just might be ahead in coffee brand recognition... Apparently both. It seems that corn isn't one of those where the typical allergy-causing...
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Possibly. McDonalds changed their coffee way before our social status was measured by coffe brand usage. This was back when somebody deemed it healthier if you...
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Heh. Not only two varieties but two species. But, really, getting the various species and varieties of...
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I'd agree with all of that except "international" road signs. Countries have "problems" with foreigners not being able to understand signs. That's not...
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When, as a student (and occasionally these days, when it's not worth throwing together a graphing toolchain on the computer), I graphed a function by hand, the process went something like: 1. Find...
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Ok, it sounded like the calculator was the end-all. As long as they're taught the basics before using...
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Sorry to be getting back to this so late... My problem with that argument - and this may be a minor point in your view - is that high school is too late to be learning arithmetic...
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I have to say that what I've observed in fast-food restaurants is that not only...
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I have to wonder whether people are taught the shortcut without also being taught why it works (i.e., that they're multiplying by one), or whether most just don't...
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rpl That's new (well since I last looked). I was surprosed too. I found out that they had no choice. USG contracts require POSIX compatibility, which Windoze will never have...
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rpl The "knows what you want" seems to be the most difficult part in this relation. There are some typical problems here, one of...
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Yup. nonono. I read his posts as wanting to be able to do the simplification at runtime using the arg listing rules set up at compile time...
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This is a misreading (or misrepresentation) of Rubin's work. What he showed (in, for example, his 1987 letter...
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On Mon, 04 Apr 2005 02:31:46 GMT, Brian Inglis Argumentum de verecundiam doesn't work here. I recall whan this fashion arose and there were an...
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in the early 70s, i wrote a pli program that analysed (360) buttembler listings ... creating abstract representation of instructions and doing detailed code flow analysis...
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On Sun, 03 Apr 2005 19:59:06 -0700 in alt.folklore.computers, "Tom Myself and coworkers found that getting out of the unstructured flowchart mentality and into the structured flow mentality allowed us to write simpler, clearer...
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I would think most compilers would pick this up as a CSE. How about a 25 year old VAX...
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On Mon, 04 Apr 2005 17:53:51 -0400, rpl As Herman said, all numbers are floating: i.e., same type. However he knows that on the Power and PowerPC processors used in RS-6000 systems, there is...
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comp.arch removed. Whereas 7.6 #2 says that they may be produced. While I agree that any sane reader would buttume that is the case only if Annex F is not in force, unfortunately insane...
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Try the specifications of signal handling and I-O. Is longjmp from catching a SIGFPE defined behaviour or not? The wording implies that it is, but it is often...
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Nick Maclaren Which is how it is supposed to be read. Please provide an example of that claim. Not when F.1 has: "An implementation that defines STDCIEC559 shall conform to the specifications...
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and I've managed to write another sentence with blurred meaning. :-) Exactly. And the reason a ** was invented to translate to exponentiation is because the function was used a...
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The function was recognized as essential in numerical mathematics, for which FORTRAN was invented. BTW, the original language is all caps, but the later versions are normally written with the F only capitalized. The character...
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Yes, I know. In this newbie day and age, I try to signify which FORTRAN I'm talking about by using the spelling. Sometimes, I forget. It's a...
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No; the essentials of the compiler are unchanged. The operator is added, just as a function...
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Whoa! You are talking about a philosophy; I'm talking about where I, the compiler, would place the bits you told me to generate. I, the compiler, cannot put...
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Why not? There are things which should not be machine independent. We are not going to continue for long to follow Moore's law, and we need...
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We are getting into the deep bowels of OS memory Debt Management here. It is the job...
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Herman Rubin ? buttembler has zero precedence. Most (all, as far as I know) compilers check types and produce optimum code for basic arithmetic when it's compiled, *not* when it runs. Not sure...
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Herman, Just a pbutting comment: Like compilers, buttemblers can also be made portable, as has been done in a number of specific situations. The usual...
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On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:50:58 -0500, Herman Rubin Many modern compilers will do constant propagation. If your pow function is in-lined, then the constant...
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I don't think it is that simple. While the "taste of the designer" is important, there are other facotrs. To...
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At one shop the standard was to overprint all heading and total lines. The more worn the ribbon was, the more dramatic the result - which fit well...
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glen herrmannsfeldt characters. Ouch! However, the chain on an IBM 1403 was 240 characters long. The chains used commonly where I used...
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Oh, cool. Congenbreastal rolling-ars. This would be something like an inability to call the horses in with a whistle. cab and the guy...
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Well, your soil stack must have at least one vent pipe rising vertically through the roof; that's a code requirement...
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