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Re: AI and even more exiciting stuff
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 19 Oct 1999 15:27:42 GMT
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Paul Speed <pspeed@augustschell.NOMORESPAMcom>
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Ralph Hempel wrote:
[ good rebuttal snipped ]
>
> Geez, the more we talk about this stuff, the less confident I am that
> anyone is paying attention in school. Or maybe they don't have enough
> real-world experience put into school environmnents - the common argument
> being that they're only trying to get the idea across, and the execution
> doesn't really matter.
Actually, I went through two years of a systems engineering
degree. (before finally dropping out) During that time I had many
semesters worth of math and CS... however, not one of them went over
fixed point math. I'm hoping that they would have eventually gotten
to it... but I think your lack of confidence is justified.
In any case, I had heard about fixed-point math for years and
assumed that it was something complicated. It wasn't until I was
doing a long period of extensive graphics work that someone pointed
out that I was using it. It fits some graphics applications so well
that I had discovered it sort of by accident.
Any application where you eventually need integers anyway
will typically be a good candidate for fixed-point... and often
it can be more accurate than floating point.
So, if any of you are worried that it's complicated then
I highly recommend that you try it. It isn't magic, it's just
a good technique to know when you need it.
I now relinquish the soap box,
-Paul (pspeed@progeeks.com, http://www.progeeks.com/)
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| (...) Ummm, respectfully, yes. If the team took days to rework the code when control data tables change, then they were not using tools and methods appropriate to the task at hand. I'm hoping you weren't "them" :-) The algorithm is the same whether (...) (25 years ago, 19-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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