At 11:21 AM Wednesday 4/13/2005, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
At 10:25 AM Wednesday 4/13/2005, Julia Thompson wrote:
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
> Julia Thompson wrote: > > > > 4! > > > No, if 4! = 24, then 24? = 4 > > The interesting thing is that 10? = 3.390 or so.
I was taking it to mean "what is 24?"
And the answer to that question is 4*3*2*1, among other things.... :)
Back in the days when a mainframe with a total of 8K 16-bit words of magnetic core memory was the biggest thing I had available, I wasted a bit of time programming it to calculate exact values up to 25!
That should read "2500!"
, which, with iirc 7412 digits, was the largest one I could squeeze into the amount of memory available (the OS took up about 2K of that memory).
Sometimes Nothing Really Matters Maru
-- Ronn! :)
And sometimes it's not a number, it's a text string.
Some programmers don't seem to realize this. At least, some programmers writing code for programs at the university I attended didn't at some point. It's annoying to have the grade report arrive a few days late because the zip code was treated as a number when you (unlike most of the attendees) live in New Hampshire, where all zip codes start out "03". (I'll spare everyone the similar rant about Social Security numbers being treated as numbers rather than text strings. Just assume there is one.)
Julia
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