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=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ca0b11ae1c9a00cb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: kst@king.cts.com (Keith Thompson) Subject: Re: Papers saying Ada as an overly complex language and hard to implement Date: 1998/02/25 Message-ID: <888370631.955495@wagasa.cts.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 328359832 Cache-Post-Path: wagasa.cts.com!kst@king.cts.com References: <34E7B551.115C289F@cs.utexas.edu> <34E8AA02.7ED447E0@cs.utexas.edu> <34E91572.CE9CEED2@cs.utexas.edu> <34EB634F.2EDF9B80@cs.utexas.edu> <6cftm9$1p9@saturn.brighton.ac.uk> <01bd3fc8$13722a20$0f02000a@luisespi> <6cqqon$p97$1@plug.news.pipex.net> <34F28B28.6C70707@ehpt.com> <1998Feb24.113944.1@eisner> Organization: CTS Network Services Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-02-25T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Larry Kilgallen (kilgallen@eisner.decus.org) wrote: > In article <34F28B28.6C70707@ehpt.com>, Jonas Nygren writes: > > > I read in the news that one guy had been rewarded for coming up > > with a proof for Fermat's theorem. He claimed that only the 100 > > top mathematicians in the world would be capable of understanding > > his proof. > > Perhaps someone could explain to those of us who are less inclined > toward math how the number who understand comes out to an even hundred :-). > > Larry Kilgallen That's easy. If there happen to be 81 mathematicians who understand it, you express the number in base 9; if there are 121, use base 11; if there are 105, use base 10.246950765.... (These are top mathematicians, after all.) -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst@cts.com <*> Qualcomm, San Diego, California, USA It takes a Viking to raze a village.