In article 5aaded58-af09-41dc-9afd-56d7b7ced...@d7g2000pbl.googlegroups.com,
Xah Lee xah...@gmail.com wrote:
SNIP
what i meant to point out is that Mathematica deals with numbers at a
high-level human way. That is, one doesn't think in terms of float,
long, int, double. These words are never
On 3/7/2012 2:02 PM, Russ P. wrote:
On Mar 6, 7:25 pm, rusirustompm...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mar 6, 6:11 am, Xah Leexah...@gmail.com wrote:
I might add that Mathematica is designed mainly for symbolic
computation, whereas IEEE floating point numbers are intended for
numerical computation.
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
It wouldn't surprise me to find out that modern CompSci degrees
don't even discuss machine representation of numbers.
As a fairly recent graduate, I can assure you that they still do.
Well, I should say at least my school did since I cannot speak
for every other
On Mar 6, 7:25 pm, rusi rustompm...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mar 6, 6:11 am, Xah Lee xah...@gmail.com wrote:
some additional info i thought is relevant.
are int, float, long, double, side-effects of computer engineering?
It is a bit naive for computer scientists to club integers and reals
On Mar 5, 10:34 pm, Xah Lee xah...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mar 5, 9:26 pm, Tim Roberts t...@probo.com wrote:
Xah Lee xah...@gmail.com wrote:
some additional info i thought is relevant.
are int, float, long, double, side-effects of computer engineering?
Of course they are. Such concepts
On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:11:09 -0800, Xah Lee wrote:
Yes.
Why do you ask? Is this not obvious?
Was this a rhetorical question?
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On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 22:34:46 -0800, Xah Lee wrote:
while what you said is true, but the problem is that 99.99% of
programers do NOT know this. They do not know Mathematica. They've never
seen a
Could you please offer some evidence to support this claim? Most of the
programmers I've ever run
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In article 7ol5r.29957$zd5.14...@newsfe12.iad,
Chiron chiron613.no.sp...@no.spam.please.gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 22:34:46 -0800, Xah Lee wrote:
while what you said is true, but the problem is that 99.99% of
programers do NOT
On 03/06/2012 01:34 AM, Xah Lee wrote:
while what you said is true, but the problem is that 99.99% of
programers do NOT know this. They do not know Mathematica. They've
never seen a language with such feature. The concept is alien. This is
what i'd like to point out and spread awareness.
I can
On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 04:29:10PM -0500, Calvin Kim wrote:
On 03/06/2012 01:34 AM, Xah Lee wrote:
while what you said is true, but the problem is that 99.99% of
programers do NOT know this. They do not know Mathematica. They've
never seen a language with such feature. The concept is alien.
On Mar 6, 6:11 am, Xah Lee xah...@gmail.com wrote:
some additional info i thought is relevant.
are int, float, long, double, side-effects of computer engineering?
It is a bit naive for computer scientists to club integers and reals
as mathematicians do given that for real numbers, even
some additional info i thought is relevant.
are int, float, long, double, side-effects of computer engineering?
Xah Lee wrote:
«… One easy way to measure it is whether a programer can read and
understand a program without having to delve into its idiosyncrasies.
…»
Chris Angelico wrote
On 06/03/2012 01:11, Xah Lee wrote:
some additional info i thought is relevant.
are int, float, long, double, side-effects of computer engineering?
Whatever you're taking please can I have some? Is it available via an
NHS prescription or do I have to go private, or do I go down the pub
On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 05:11:09PM -0800, Xah Lee wrote:
some additional info i thought is relevant.
are int, float, long, double, side-effects of computer engineering?
Xah Lee wrote:
«… One easy way to measure it is whether a programer can read and
understand a program without having
Xah Lee xah...@gmail.com wrote:
some additional info i thought is relevant.
are int, float, long, double, side-effects of computer engineering?
Of course they are. Such concepts violate the purity of a computer
language's abstraction of the underlying hardware. We accept that
violation
On Mar 5, 9:26 pm, Tim Roberts t...@probo.com wrote:
Xah Lee xah...@gmail.com wrote:
some additional info i thought is relevant.
are int, float, long, double, side-effects of computer engineering?
Of course they are. Such concepts violate the purity of a computer
language's abstraction
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