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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,c212e60d58417232 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-03-12 15:44:14 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!zeus.visi.com!priapus.visi.com!orange.octanews.net!news-out.visi.com!petbe.visi.com!news.octanews.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-stoc.telia.net!217.209.241.210.MISMATCH!news-stod.telia.net!telia.net!masternews.telia.net.!newsc.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Persson?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 X-Accept-Language: sv, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: [OT] Hints for an algorithm - avoiding O(n^2) References: <5d6fdb61.0403120115.7c102e3c@posting.google.com> <7j5s2c.32r.ln@skymaster> <1Yi4c.85891$dP1.243229@newsc.telia.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 23:44:13 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.209.116.179 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsc.telia.net 1079135053 217.209.116.179 (Sat, 13 Mar 2004 00:44:13 CET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 00:44:13 CET Organization: Telia Internet Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6296 Date: 2004-03-12T23:44:13+00:00 List-Id: Robert I. Eachus wrote: > Bj=F6rn Persson wrote: >=20 >> If that were true, the moon would orbit the sun and not the Earth (if = >> we ignore the rest of the universe). >=20 >=20 > Actually it does. If you compute the gravitational force of the Earth = > on the Moon, and compare it to the gravitational force of the Sun, the = > Sun has a much greater effect. In fact, the orbit of the Moon around=20 > the Sun is everywhere convex. I didn't mean to say that the Sun doesn't affect the Moon. "If what J-P=20 wrote were true, the Moon would not orbit both the Sun and the Earth, as = it does, but only orbit the solar system's center of gravity (if we=20 ignore the rest of the universe)." Is that better? You can't choose your words too carefully when there are Ada language=20 lawyers in the audience. :-) --=20 Bj=F6rn Persson jor ers @sv ge. b n_p son eri nu