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From: "Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: functions, packages & characters
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 22:25:20 -0500
Date: 2002-03-01T22:25:20-05:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a5pg1k$6dh$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3C7E7A76.6030402@mail.com

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".

-CRM

"Hyman Rosen" <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message
news:3C7E7A76.6030402@mail.com...
> Chad R. Meiners wrote:
> > I believe this is what David is saying.  Normally when you write code to
> > accept arbitrarily large input, you write it so that it's only
constraint is
> > memory.
>
> He said "1500 was meant as an arbitrarily large value". But there
> is no such thing as an arbitrarily large value. To deal with large
> input lines, you need to use some other technique, such as the
> recursive Get_Line.
>





  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-02  3:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-21  8:59 functions, packages & characters Christoph Grein
2002-02-21 18:07 ` Unversed Angel
2002-02-21 18:28   ` Hyman Rosen
2002-02-21 23:44     ` Randy Brukardt
2002-02-22  0:37       ` Matthew Heaney
2002-02-22  1:12         ` Matthew Heaney
2002-02-22  2:57         ` Randy Brukardt
2002-02-22 13:54           ` Marin David Condic
2002-02-23  1:10             ` Matthew Heaney
2002-02-25 15:47               ` Marin David Condic
2002-02-26 15:58                 ` Matthew Heaney
2002-02-25 19:37             ` Randy Brukardt
2002-02-25 20:49               ` Marin David Condic
2002-02-26  3:30               ` David Starner
2002-02-26 15:44                 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-02-26 21:43                   ` David Starner
2002-02-27  6:32                     ` Hyman Rosen
2002-02-28  3:55                       ` Chad R. Meiners
2002-02-28 18:44                         ` Hyman Rosen
2002-03-02  3:25                           ` Chad R. Meiners [this message]
2002-03-03  8:22                             ` Hyman Rosen
2002-03-03 17:50                               ` Chad R. Meiners
2002-03-01  2:08                         ` David Starner
2002-03-05 14:36                       ` Marin David Condic
2002-02-26  7:42               ` tmoran
2002-02-22 15:34           ` Matthew Heaney
2002-02-22  2:47       ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-02-22 13:41       ` Marin David Condic
2002-02-23  1:08         ` Matthew Heaney
2002-02-23  2:03         ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-02-22 16:27       ` Hyman Rosen
2002-02-21 23:49     ` unversedangel
2002-02-21 22:48   ` unversedangel
2002-02-21 23:14     ` Hyman Rosen
2002-02-22 14:11     ` Marin David Condic
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-02-21  0:16 Unversed Angel
2002-02-21  0:37 ` tmoran
2002-02-21  1:13   ` Unversed Angel
2002-02-21  2:53     ` tmoran
2002-02-21  8:25       ` Unversed Angel
2002-02-21 13:47         ` Marin David Condic
2002-02-22  0:22         ` tmoran
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