From: john@assen.demon.co.uk (John McCabe)
Subject: Re: logarithms on ada
Date: 1997/03/05
Date: 1997-03-05T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <331dec34.1497804@news.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E6Lt30.1Fy@world.std.com
bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff) wrote:
<..snip..>
>In grade-school, I was quite sure that (1/3)*3 = 1, exactly. ;-)
>Of course, in those days, I had the foolish notion that God had not
>deemed 2**31-1 to be equal to infinity. ;-)
Or even 2^32 to be an odd number! Try this on a casio FX-450 or
FX-450M calculator or various other Casio calculators from the mid
eighties!
>
>- Bob
Best Regards
John McCabe <john@assen.demon.co.uk>
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Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-03-02 0:00 logarithms on ada Brian R Franklin
1997-03-04 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1997-03-04 0:00 ` John McCabe
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-07 0:00 ` John McCabe
1997-03-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-09 0:00 ` John McCabe
1997-03-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-10 0:00 ` John McCabe
1997-03-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-11 0:00 ` John McCabe
1997-03-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-12 0:00 ` John McCabe
1997-03-07 0:00 ` Darren C Davenport
1997-03-04 0:00 ` Bob Klungle
1997-03-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-05 0:00 ` Doug Smith
1997-03-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-03-05 0:00 ` John McCabe [this message]
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Doug Smith
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1997-03-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-11 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-03-12 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Andrew Dunstan
1997-03-10 0:00 ` Doug Smith
1997-03-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-05 0:00 ` Bob Klungle
1997-03-05 0:00 ` David Shochat
1997-03-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-05 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
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