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(...) I'm having trouble figuring out how that's even possible. For example, the first sample line in the 'jeremy' file above appears to say that 'jeremy' occurs as the 19th, 590th, 595th 600th and 605th words of (URL) (which looks more or less (...) (25 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | X-Mimeole header??? (was: Re: Legofest? Call for more info)
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In lugnet.loc.uk, Huw Millington wrotes: (...) Hey, I don't get it. This wasn't a MIME message according to the headers, so that's why the newsserver didn't reject it. But it says it's a MIME- encapsulated message, and the headers have something (...) (25 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: 22/7 & infinities (was: Re: The nature of the JC god, good or evil?)
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(...) The "much better" one I heard was 355/113: 355/113 = 3.141592920353... which comes within ~0.000008 percent... (...) It's interesting to note, however, that there are important sets of numbers that include these irrational numbers and are (...) (25 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Text::Query
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(...) Not very magical, no. It breaks text apart by anything non-alphanumeric, where the "alpha" part includes ISO-8859-1 international letters like ã, ñ, ß, and ø, etc. It converts everything to lowercase for indexing and collapses apostrophes. (...) (25 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Conversion between LDU, inches and millimeters
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(...) 25.4 (...) Yes. Here is a table provided by Lycos: (URL) down and notice that the value for inch->millimeter is given as "25.4000" The story I heard is that, at some point around 100 years ago it was decided to redefine the English weights and (...) (25 years ago, 24-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Text::Query
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(...) Yah. I actually was getting excited over the similarity in syntax; I hadn't even thought of the need for indexing such a huge database as LUGNET. BTW, what kind of scanner are you using for the index builder? Does it just break apart words (...) (25 years ago, 24-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: 22/7 & infinities (was: Re: The nature of the JC god, good or evil?)
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Do put your oar in Simon, I think you're making some good points (...) Knowing deep in your inner being what something means, and being able to use it to make predictions, are two different things. I won't pretend to understand quanta, or (...) (25 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: 22/7 & infinities (was: Re: The nature of the JC god, good or evil?)
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(...) Well, since transcendentals are a subset of the irrationals, so there's no way that transcendentals can constitute a bigger infinity than the irrationals. All transcendentals are irrational (but the converse isn't true). pi is transcendental (...) (25 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: 22/7 & infinities (was: Re: The nature of the JC god, good or evil?)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Todd Lehman writes: <Massive snip> (...) You mean the transcendental numbers, presumably? I seem to recall reading that practically every number along the real number line is transcendental, with just odd blips where you (...) (25 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: The nature of the JC god, good or evil? (Was Re: POV-RAY orange color (0)
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(...) I know; I shamelessly took advantage of selective snipping. :) (25 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: The nature of the JC god, good or evil? (Was Re: POV-RAY orange color (0)
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(...) You know that, and I know that. But John, being a mac user, doesn't. :-) Just kidding. But I, right after that, did express it in decimal, exactly. It's just not a non-repeating decimal. He didn't say it couldn't repeat... (25 years ago, 22-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: The nature of the JC god, good or evil? (Was Re: POV-RAY orange color (0)
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(...) But that's not _dec_imal, which implies base 10. (25 years ago, 22-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: 22/7 & infinities (was: Re: The nature of the JC god, good or evil?)
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(...) Whoops. I misspoke. Yes, you can actually manipulate infinite numbers in many (not all) cases, but the example of sqrt(8)/sqrt(2)=2 isn't an example of manipulating infinite numbers. Those numbers are finite, of course -- but perhaps (...) (25 years ago, 22-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | 22/7 & infinities (was: Re: The nature of the JC god, good or evil?)
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Plowing though .debate and a couple numbers caught my eye! (below) (...) Larry, IMBW, but I think John might've meant "pi" when he said "22/7" -- at least, I know I've heard people accidentally refer to pi in that manner before. John, pi = (...) (25 years ago, 22-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Biting tin foil (Was: Lego VCR)
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onyx wrote in message ... (...) I don't have fillings(but not perfect teeth). I think what you're talking about happens to me. (...) (25 years ago, 22-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Text::Query
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(...) OK, I just took a look at Text::Query. From what I can tell from reading the docs and the source, it looks as though it's a brute force text scanner rather than an inverted-index generator. So that means it's about 3 to 4 orders of magnitude (...) (25 years ago, 22-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Biting tin foil (Was: Lego VCR)
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(...) I've often wondered. I've never been too keen on having my fillings removed so I can experiment, though. :-, It sounds like some kind of electrical phenomenon, perhaps like powering a light bulb with a pair of lemons (1)(2)(3). I've noticed (...) (25 years ago, 22-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Biting tin foil (Was: Lego VCR)
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(...) do fillings enhance this sensation at all (1)(2), or is it natural even in perfect teeth?? (1) my first footnote, all in honor of you, larry pientlkstaha';tlkhedt ;) (2) if the answer to the above is "yes", then is it only with metal-based (...) (25 years ago, 21-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Biting tin foil (Was: Lego VCR)
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(...) Dissimilar electromotive potentials. (25 years ago, 21-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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