the semi-colon is on the next line!
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From: Fernando Cabral [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 1999 11:25 AM
To: Dave Bell
Cc: sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de; Slawek K. Grzechnik
Subject: Re: On the subject of zero
Dave Bell wrote:
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> Or:
K. Grzechnik
> Subject: Re: On the subject of zero
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> Dave Bell wrote:
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> > Or: a ^= b ^= a ^= b
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> Compilor error: line 0 - semicolon missing
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> Just to take us back to the 0 issue :-)
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> - fernando
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> -
Dave Bell wrote:
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> Or: a ^= b ^= a ^= b
Compilor error: line 0 - semicolon missing
Just to take us back to the 0 issue :-)
- fernando
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On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Fernando Cabral wrote:
> As to the loop, it seems things like
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> for ( ; n ; ++n)
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> mistifies more than any otherthing with the probable exception
> of things like
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> a = a ? b : c;
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> - fernando
Or: a ^= b ^= a ^= b
Dave
Slawek
I know what you mean. For about 10 years I made my living
either teaching C programming language or using it to
replace assembly code or -- less commonly -- to develop
application. This used to be the original, bare-bone K&R C.
Or -- as in the time of CP/M (do you remember?) -- I used
a
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de
Date: Tuesday, December 28, 1999 5:57 PM
Subject: Re: On the subject of zero
>I just had an interesting thought in regard to the conversation about
zero...
>Nothing is something!
In computer related fields zero is used ruthlessly up to a point of
counting pages.
Non-programmer calls his programmer friend and tells him
- I faxed you 10 pages of my recent paper
The other guy starts counting 0,1,...,9 and calls back
- only 9 arrived
This is a joke of course playing the trick
I just had an interesting thought in regard to the conversation about zero...
Nothing is something!
The Shaws wrote:
> Many of us find it difficult to understand how it was possible to manage
> without a zero - but it is interesting to note that we still use a "no zero"
> system when numbering the days of the month.
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> There is no December 0.
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> We call the first day of the month :- "the fi
Many of us find it difficult to understand how it was possible to manage
without a zero - but it is interesting to note that we still use a "no zero"
system when numbering the days of the month.
There is no December 0.
We call the first day of the month :- "the first" - just like the ancients
ca
At 12:05 PM 12/28/99 +0200, Craig Gibson wrote:
>Hi all
>
>
>When did the concept of '0' actually start? Ancient
>mathematicians surely could not have worked without it, yet there
>is no 0 in roman numerals for example...
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>Kind Regards
>Craig Gibson
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>Hi Craig,
This topic is well covered
Craig Gibson wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I just had a thought... a rare event ;)
>
> When did the concept of '0' actually start? Ancient
> mathematicians surely could not have worked without it, yet there
> is no 0 in roman numerals for example...
>
> A little off topic I suppose but maybe one of you 'b
Hi all
I just had a thought... a rare event ;)
When did the concept of '0' actually start? Ancient
mathematicians surely could not have worked without it, yet there
is no 0 in roman numerals for example...
A little off topic I suppose but maybe one of you 'brainies' have the
answer...
Kind
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