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vor 16 Tagendiscuss

The ternary operator is easy to nest if you put each clause on a separate line. Then it looks just like nested if-then-else.

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vor 16 Tagendiscuss

Years ago, I used Acrobat to extract tables from a PDF. Had to do it manually, but it pasted nicely into Excel.

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As usual, anything Trump and his minions touch turns to garbage.

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I believe that I got the first external cassette drive for the PET on the west coast. Only used it a very few times. The big boost was when I got the floppy disk drive. I could do anything!

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For a nice introduction to relativity, look at The Einstein Theory of Relativity: A Trip to the Fourth Dimension by Lillian R. Lieber. $15 on Amazon. Written in 1945 and still quite good.

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I enjoyed this article. I always find it interesting how things came to be and how individual contributions made things happen.

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vor 3 Monatendiscuss

If you believe them.

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vor 3 Monatendiscuss

As Victor said, his parents were very upset when they came home and found him in front of a roaring fire, because they did not have a fireplace.

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vor 3 Monatendiscuss

Looks interesting. Should start with a definition of the Hyperbolic Tangent. It is only about 2/3 of the way that the definition occurs in a discussion of computing exp(x).

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vor 4 Monatendiscuss

Damn. Never knew that. TIL

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vor 5 Monatendiscuss

In the mid 70's, I was a graduate CS student at USC's Information Sciences Institute. I remember my feeling of awe when I used Arpanet (or was it Darpanet) to log into London and do stuff there. Wow!

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vor 5 Monatendiscuss

Trump is clearly winning his war on America.

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vor 5 Monatendiscuss

Not if the ratio between the largest and smallest floats is very large (2^(2^n)) where n is the number of bits in the exponent.

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vor 7 Monatendiscuss

Like the old saying:

Military justice is to justice as military music is to music

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vor 8 Monatendiscuss

(I saw this on a math department bulletin board about 1960)

A theorem both deep and profound States that every circle is round But in a paper by Erdos Written in Kurdish A counterexample is found

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vor 8 Monatendiscuss

Did you use the regular version or the one with multiple-precision values?

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vor 10 Monatendiscuss

Clif bars recently went from 6 bars per box to 5. They write the 5 on the box as if it is something improved, not reduced.

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vor 10 Monatendiscuss

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vor 10 Monatendiscuss

As Disney almost wrote:

Everybody wants to be a bat Cause noone but a bat really knows where it's at