SimCoupe/MacOS updated to 0.7.9

2000-10-02 Thread Simon Owen
Just spotted that Richard Bannister has updated his Mac port of SimCoupe to 0.7.9: "SimCoupe, the SAM Coupe emulator for Macintosh, has been updated today - for the first time in over two years! The new release adds improved compatibility, sound emulation, and lots of bug fixes." "Sound support

Re: Console Coupe -> more complete calculations

2000-10-02 Thread Howard Price
At 16:31 02/10/2000 +0200, you wrote: >Hey man, your subscribe is longer than your message! Don't I know it! - Nothing to do with me - I'm forcefully appended by a central 'bureacracy computer', cos I work for the council. They think that anything I send over E-mail might get them into court. L

Re: Console Coupe -> more complete calculations

2000-10-02 Thread Aley Keprt
Hey man, your subscribe is longer than your message! > Is it just me, or did it suddenly get geekier in here? :-) > But is there really positive and negative zeroes? It's peaked my geeky > interest. > > > > > The NTICS Group: providers of Database Services to learndirect and Sheffield TEC. Cont

Re: Console Coupe -> more complete calculations

2000-10-02 Thread Howard Price
Is it just me, or did it suddenly get geekier in here? :-) But is there really positive and negative zeroes? It's peaked my geeky interest. >On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 12:04:03AM -0700, Simon Cooke wrote: >> Hmmm... looks like everyone's ignoring the transfinite set of numbers, >> Cantor sets, and

Re: Console Coupe -> more complete calculations

2000-10-02 Thread Aley Keprt
> On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 12:04:03AM -0700, Simon Cooke wrote: > > Hmmm... looks like everyone's ignoring the transfinite set of numbers, > > Cantor sets, and Aleph^0, Aleph^1, Aleph^2, etc. > > The transfinite ordinals are ordinals, not "numbers"; and the Alephs > are cardinals, not necessarily

Re: Console Coupe -> more complete calculations

2000-10-02 Thread Ian Collier
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 11:12:08AM +0100, Andrew Gale wrote: > I guess Simon's talking about 1's complement numbers, or sign+magnitude > binary representation of -ve numbers. In that case that's two different representations of the same number, rather than two different numbers. (Despite what the

Re: Console Coupe -> more complete calculations

2000-10-02 Thread Andrew Gale
> > Also, the fact that you can have positive and negative zero... > > In what branch of mathematics? I've never heard of it. I guess Simon's talking about 1's complement numbers, or sign+magnitude binary representation of -ve numbers.

RE: Console Coupe -> more complete calculations

2000-10-02 Thread Justin . Skists
UNREAL NUMBERS?!?!?! ARH!! > -Original Message- > From: Ian Collier [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 11:08 AM > To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no > Subject: Re: Console Coupe -> more complete calculations > > On Mon, O

Re: Console Coupe -> more complete calculations

2000-10-02 Thread Ian Collier
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 12:04:03AM -0700, Simon Cooke wrote: > Hmmm... looks like everyone's ignoring the transfinite set of numbers, > Cantor sets, and Aleph^0, Aleph^1, Aleph^2, etc. The transfinite ordinals are ordinals, not "numbers"; and the Alephs are cardinals, not necessarily numbers eithe

Re: Console Coupe -> more complete calculations

2000-10-02 Thread Simon Cooke
From: "Jarek Adamski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Dnia 00-09-28 Aley Keprt pisze: > > > So why cannot we accept any (numeric) answer? > > 0*anything=0 > > infinite*anything=infinite > > This implies that 0=infinite. > > Well... > > 0 * anything = 0 > > only when this "anything" isn't infinite, and > > in