Re: Nobel prize

2006-10-20 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 20, 2006, at 4:49 AM, Mark Smith wrote: I am insanely pleased with myself for having come up with a function to calculate the distance between two points, That will work, and Bill's comments will make it improved. (I have not received his mail, still in Carnivore I assume, but I ha

Nobel prize

2006-10-20 Thread Mark Smith
return trunc(sqrt(square1 + square2)) end pointDistance However, being a complete dunce when it comes to mathematics, it occurs to me that there may be other, better ways to do this, which I can't even imagine. So what does the list think? Nobel prize or dunces cap? Best,