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Re: Soliciting comments (and help) with online form
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Mon, 14 Dec 1998 15:17:58 GMT
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cjc@newsguy.=spamcake=com
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Jasper Janssen <janssenjasper@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 3,7,17 are all prime numbers - maybe that helps.
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> lessee: 2,3,5,7,11,13,17,19....
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> Not any particular order in the way they're picked from that row, I
> think. Do you run on P60 w/bug, by any chance?
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> Or it could just be binary/decimal conversion artifacts.
Thanks for the comments. Todd seems to have solved the problem,
although I'm honest enough to admit that the whole thing is beyond me.
Oddly enough, when I went back and looked at the old broke version it
did bad math on some even numbers as well.
The new, seemingly fixed version can be seen here:
http://www.guarded-inn.com/lego/auction/test1214.htm
And no, I don't run a P60. :) Running a Celeron 300a overclocked to
450. But from Todd's explanation I almost think computer math on any
machine might not be the exact sort of thing I've always thought it to
be.
I don't understand it, but I guess there are times when .35 x 3 is not
1.05. Makes no sense, though.
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| (...) It depends on the software. Packages like Mathematica will always get .35 x 3 right (unless they're told to use standard floating-point arithmetic). (...) Most popular lanuages in use today (JavaScript included) use 32- or 64-bit (...) (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.publish)
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| (...) 3,7,17 are all prime numbers - maybe that helps. lessee: 2,3,5,7,11,13,17,19.... Not any particular order in the way they're picked from that row, I think. Do you run on P60 w/bug, by any chance? Or it could just be binary/decimal conversion (...) (26 years ago, 14-Dec-98, to lugnet.publish)
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