From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,794c64d1f9164710 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-03 00:22:10 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.cwix.com!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamfinder.gnilink.net!nwrddc01.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3C81DDFA.8090306@mail.com> From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:0.9.8+) Gecko/20020216 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: functions, packages & characters References: <20020221130715.12738.00000034@mb-bg.aol.com> <3C753C66.8020509@mail.com> <3C7BAD52.4050208@mail.com> <3C7C7E2D.6090602@mail.com> <3C7E7A76.6030402@mail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2002 08:22:06 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 162.83.250.232 X-Complaints-To: business-support@verizon.com X-Trace: nwrddc01.gnilink.net 1015143726 162.83.250.232 (Sun, 03 Mar 2002 03:22:06 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2002 03:22:06 EST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20714 Date: 2002-03-03T08:22:06+00:00 List-Id: Chad R. Meiners wrote: > Do you have any formal training in mathematics? Please do not take offense > to this question, but you seem to misunderstand what is meant by the phase > "for arbitrarily large values of x". Oh, I see I misunderstood what David Starner was saying - my bad. He didn't mean "use 1500 when typical size is 40 or 50", he meant "be prepared for arbitrarily large input, with 1500 as a sample". I have a degree in engineering, and the math to go with it. I do know what "for arbitrarily large values of x" means, but I seem to have trouble parsing English. Hey, maybe it's time to start the thread on the difference between arbitrary and random! :-)