The fun part here is we can use numerator/denominator syntax with
open-ended
precision integers, to like express sqrt of 19 as some humongous fraction
(as many digits as memory will allow). This lets us far surpass the
floating point barrier.
For example, the sqrt of 19 is rougly:
n = ((pow(orig,0.5) + addterm)/denom)**2
H, this may be the Achilles heal of my project, to not use any sqrt
finder in the process of finding a sqrt using continued fractions. Back to
the drawing board?
Kirby
Again - major disconnect. Worrying about affordability implies we have
already concluded that access to this stuff - in providing good education -
matters much.
But who is this we? My point is many kids of high school age and younger
have already decided they want to be computer virtuosos of
My presentation:
I had tech support fiddling with sound during the opening, while I browsed
my presentation manager's source code for a minute or two -- didn't get
into it as deeply as I'd have liked, but hey, it's on the web. The sound
problem was soon solved.
Then I launched into the slides,
Greetings edu-siggers --
I'm posting from OSCON 2005. If you want to watch over my shoulder, my
highly personalized angle on events is being chronicled (by me) @ Grain of
Sand (my blog).
http://worldgame.blogspot.com/ -- good conference so far, though it really
starts tomorrow (we're in the
So I attended Guido's 'Why I Invented Python' talk in conference room VV
today (Swedes like V and K above other letters, it seems to me).
I learned quite a bit of history from this talk. He paid a lot of tribute
to ABC (a language for non-programmers needing to write programs) for being
KU thewords = {'noun1':'house', 'noun2':'mouse'}
KU print The %(noun2)s is in the %(noun1)s.
detail
Aren't these missing the dictionary names in the print statements?
/detail
--
Best regards,
Chuck
teacher comment
Yes indeed, you get an A. Now go teach Python grasshopper, there is
Thanks Art, exploring this web site was a fun experience in the humanities.
Good to see people still know how to write.
Kirby
Original Message:
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From: Arthur [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 11:15:36 -0400
To: edu-sig@python.org
Subject: [Edu-sig] Not Pi
Finally
That's where I am being confused.
Graphical programming has nothing necessarily to do with a GUI, so
I am confused why we are discussing them in any way together.
The key word is necessarily and I completely agree. I was mentioning
several kinds of programming. GUI programming *is* graphical,
