Re: Positive Infinity forever

Oh, no, Bob, it is also certain that a genooine understanding of trig, calculus, counting numbers, engineering and computer science will require a foundational knowledge of infinity, for example, why 1+2+3+4+ ... = -1/12 ;-) Hardy saw this in the notes of Ramanujan (“The Man Who Knew

Re: positive infinity forever

Thanks, Ali! And Congratulations! Ali Lloyd wrote: > > Having fairly recently done a PhD in set theory, I can confirm that the > independence of the continuum hypothesis has not been refuted! ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: Positive Infinity forever

omeone (Halmos?) found an extension of ZFC that trumps (sorry) Cohen's independence of CH. Is that the case? > On May 22, 2016, at 9:18 PM, Mick Collins <mickc...@mac.com> wrote: > > Doc Hawk, > I'm envious that you took a course from Halmos, but I question what is &g

Re: Positive Infinity forever

Doc Hawk, I'm envious that you took a course from Halmos, but I question what is probably a typo. "Dr. Hawkins" wrote: Well, which infinity? aleph-naught (A0) is the count of the integers/wholes/natural A1=2^A0, the count of the reals. For that mater 2^AJ=A(J+1) A1-A0=A1

Re: beggars be choosers

tion: > http://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/ > > As you can see on that page, Community Editions start at 6.0.1. > > Is that what you were asking for? > > Thanks - > Phil Davis > > Richard Gaskin wrote: > > Mick Collins wrote: > >> I?m wondering whether

beggars be choosers

I’m one of those who can’t afford anything more than the community version of LC (for reasons of money, testing / experiment time). I’m wondering whether there will be a version 6._ or 7._ which will come out before the first sanctified version of 8 and when the next version (of 6, 7, and/or 8)

Re: What's everyone working on this month?

I haven’t had the time to do more than a slight beginning yet, but I’ve been annoyed with it for some time. I’m on the digest and there is a msg about editing the subject line, but there isn’t one about not copying all of a thread (which may be fine for those not on digest, but ...). What’s

Re:

PREVIOUS POST MISTAKENLY SENT,PLEASE DO NOT POST PREVIOUS NOR THIS MESSAGE ) Sent from my iPhone On Aug 14, 2015, at 8:54 PM, Mick Collins mickc...@mac.com wrote: ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode

Re:

of teaching methods should be incorporated into a single course. Bill William Prothero http://ed.earthednet.org On Aug 13, 2015, at 1:38 AM, Mick Collins mickc...@mac.com wrote: Just my 2 cents worth: When I was studying math as an undergraduate and as a graduate student, many

Re: Describing LiveCode

course. Bill William Prothero http://ed.earthednet.org On Aug 13, 2015, at 1:38 AM, Mick Collins mickc...@mac.com wrote: Just my 2 cents worth: When I was studying math as an undergraduate and as a graduate student, many of the classes were taught by the (R. L.) Moore Method

Re: Describing LiveCode

Just my 2 cents worth: When I was studying math as an undergraduate and as a graduate student, many of the classes were taught by the (R. L.) Moore Method. In this method the professor gives axioms, definitions and just the statements of the theorems. The students have to prove the theorems

Re: use-livecode Digest, Vol 137, Issue 35

Hey Bob, it's not 4/1 yet, ya did reconcile yer on and end statements, right? Sent from my iPhone Bob S said on openStack go card 2 go back end openCard I end up on card 2. Ideas?? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com

Population puzzle

I’ve been working on this one for a few minutes, a few there and finally got it, a month later. Great puzzle, Michael, thanks! From: Michael Doub miked...@gmail.com To: How To use LiveCode use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Subject: Population puzzle Message-ID:

Re: ANN and OT: Calling All SETI Enthusiasts

 Well, Roger, since you hijacked your own thread ... So 20th century! Speculation may not be scientific, but neither is this is the world (as opposed to this is the world as scientists presently know it). See the difference; it is apparently a point of great confusion on this thread (and

Re: ANN and OT: Calling All SETI Enthusiasts

the obstacles. Otherwise, I declare your cry of bullshit to be the true bullshit that all who have no answers cry when they are confronted with the difficulties of their assertions.  Bob On Mar 28, 2012, at 11:21 AM, Mick Collins wrote: Bob's logistics is, as Rick Santorum said day before

Re: ANN and OT: Calling All SETI Enthusiasts

Talking about presumptuous, Bob, well here's a good quotation to keep in mind. If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.   --  Orville Wright Message: 12 Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:28:29 -0700 From: Bob Sneidar

Re: ANN and OT: Calling All SETI Enthusiasts

assets. I cannot make a computer to calculate the answer to life, the Universe, Everything! :-) Bob On Mar 27, 2012, at 4:38 AM, Mick Collins wrote: Talking about presumptuous, Bob, well here's a good quotation to keep in mind. If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true

Re: How to make a square topped, round rect bottomed graphic?

I think I've seen all the previous replies.  If so, here's a different, more mathematical, approach that can be combined with the gradient and other techniques mentioned before: The main thing here is a function (pointsOfNorman, Norman because of the resemblance to a Norman window) that

Re: use-livecode Digest, Vol 87, Issue 7

Thanks, Bob, Actually, the sole reason I posted this to make fun of those who couldn't see the difference between LiveCode and Fortran; I knew someone would take the bait,    -  Mick Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 13:30:00 -0800 From: Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com To: How to use LiveCode

Re: Project Euler

Mike, 'scool, thanks. Brian, I agree, great project for math and coding. Sometimes it's an enlightening exercise to take an existing capability and code it oneself or to extend it. For instance, I have written routines to do infinite precision integer arithmetic (working on an infinite

Re: Project Euler [SPOILER #3]

600851475143 = 71* 839 * 1471 * 6857 It's factors are 1, 71, 839, 1471, 6857, 59569, 104441, 486847, 1234169, 5753023, 10086647, 87625999, 408464633, 716151937, 8462696833, and 600851475143 I wrote a stack that will do this for any number whose largest prime factor is around 100,000,000 or

Re: Project Euler

First, thanks, Andre for starting the thread and turning us / me onto the Euler Project. I enjoy implementing algorithms, but math is fun, too! Since Euler was a mathematician, how about a more mathematical approach. I haven't seen these approaches yet in my quick scan of the posts, so I

Re: Life, the universe...

Nah, if you look at the digits of pi and include the initial 3. then 42424242 is found beginning digit 242424 ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Re: Move to the points of an (tilted) oval?

Here is a modification of Jacques Hausser's handler to allow an oval (ellipse) tilted by thetaDeg degrees and repeating once or many times (or 40 for forever, around 125 years if you wanna get picky) on dotest put 30 into stepSize repeat with i = 0 to 360 step stepSize

Re: OT - Thierry quote of Picasso

Computers are useless. They only give you answers. Pablo Picasso The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows. Frank Zappa ___ use-revolution

Re: Sheets and Drawers?

You take off your drawers before getting under the sheets ;-Q ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Scripting Competition

Here are F(1) to F(100) followed by F(1) 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 55 89 144 233 377 610 987 1597 2584 4181 6765 10946 17711 28657 46368 75025 121393 196418 317811 514229 832040 1346269 2178309 3524578 5702887 9227465 14930352 24157817 39088169 63245986 102334155 165580141 267914296

Re: Math issue, isn't it?

It seems to me that significant digits might be a better way to go than mathPrecision. Problem is in comparing something like 3^-6 - 3^-7 = 0 or 3^-26 - 3^-27 = 0. If that is what you intend you would likely have a problem with the latter being true, when for your purposes it isn't,

Re: Math issue, isn't it?

Until the matter is finished being debated and a plan of action is decided on, a function could be used such as function numsAreEqual n1, n2, epsilon return abs(n1 - n2) epsilon end numsAreEqual If your testing of the immediate comparison indicates to you that there are no roundoff

Re: bad interaction between random and word?

Thanks, Michael, Bernard Devlin also replied with your post from nabble. I don't have much time and since I have a workaround, similar to yours (putting the random number into a var before putting it into an array (or, in my case, a word) ), I will decline on the bug report. - Mick

Re: bad interaction between random and word?

Thank you, Bernard. I was doing a histogram with random data just a few weeks ago myself and didn't think to do a test at the time -- it seems very similar to what Michael found in your Nabble link. And now this problem -- whatever the underlying problems, I'll bet they are the same. I

bad interaction between random and word?

Hello, everyone, I was working on a project that involved randomness, which seemed to be a little off, so I did some testing. I ran this handler from msgbox: on tst2 repeat with i = 2 to 10 put i into randarg put 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 into theList put 1 * i into

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 61, Issue 36

Hi, Timothy, Here are a couple of functions that I think will fit the bill for you. The first returns a number in standard normal distribution (mean 0 and standard deviation 1). The second returns a number in normal distribution with mean mu and standard deviation sigma (as arguments.

Reply to both (is RR too hard / easy?) and (is RR marketed to dev'rs only)

Seems to me that these need to be answered together. Personally, I would love to see, say, a 6-month trial copy of Media bundled with certain computers. Has Apple or certain large-scale computer dealers been contacted about this sort of thing? I tell you, having HC bundled with the Macs

polygon geometry

One thing that might help is that if you have a point P that you know is in the polygon, then For any other point Q in the polygon, the segment PQ will cross the polygon(boundary) an even number of times and for any point Q outside the polygon the segment PQ will cross the boundary an odd

Re: Query about mod operator

fractions when calculating theDiff. All computer languages have the same limitation. This is why floating point libraries are added to scientific processing to achieve accuracy for using decimal values. Hope this helps shed light on the subject. Jim Ault Las Vegas On 4/21/08 11:18 AM, Mick

comment on - Wrong way round - Revolution

There is a movie studio in Santa Monica that has the name Revolution Studios (and another in France Revolution Studio of which I've never seen a film, just on google) and I wonder if there has been any problem with the names. I chuckle every time I see it at the beginning of a film. -

Re:Query about mod operator

code below, comments interspersed, - Mick Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:31:42 -0700 From: Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Query about mod operator There's a long-standing debate between engineers and people about whether computers should be made to think like humans or the

Re: Query about mod operator

Interesting, I don't think it has to do with dividing by zero I ran this script: ON tst REPEAT WITH i = 1 to 100 put i * .01 into iDiv put 8 mod iDiv into modiDiv put 8 div iDiv into intQuotient put 8 - (intQuotient * iDiv + modiDiv) into theDiff put iDiv ,

Re: AutoSave

We all want it all, how about having it all? Have a default autosave for newbies, and a set of preferences for later: continued autosave, with a changeable time span between autosaves, a message that comes up that asks if you want to save (a reminder), with Yes, Never or some number of

Re: Rev Blog

Hi, Sarah, great idea. I have only one suggestion, based on my confusion when I first read it. Early in the description of Rev you say: Revolution Enterprise is the same as Studio but with access to pre- release versions as well as the ability to develop on multiple platforms (a Studio

way OT bass players ... was filter without empty

Yep, except I am a bass violin player (unless you count the Ashbory which, in my book really isn't a bass guitar, although it does have some things in common). I have played classical, now I play jazz, avante-garde, meditational (all the previous improv), and some fiddle music, but that I

Re: OT: on writing code

That's funny, that is identical to what my budgie produces when, against my injunctions, she flies OVER my keyboard (or anywhere else).. On Jan 30, 2008, at 11:35 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:15:52 -0600 From: J. Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OT: on

Re: Fraction Fonts

Hey Mark, Anyone: I am wondering if anyone has tried to connect to Equation Editor, or other math notation utility from within. Otherwise, anyone aware of the legal implications of reverse engineering it in Rev. I am a math tutor and would like to use such a thing. - Mick On Jan

Re: Hypercard play command

thingy for PC but I've never gotten it to work properly. Judy On Jan 29, 2008 11:25 AM, Mick Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any ideas on emulating hypercard's play command? It's been a long time but I think the syntax was: play soundname -- to set the default tone/voice/etc play stop -- to stop

Re:Hypercard play command

://homepage.mac.com/udi/stack/makeSMF133.hqx There are English and Japanese docs in it. -- Kenji Kojima RGB MusicLab: Pixels into Music http://www.kenjikojima.com/rgbmusiclab/ On Jan 29, 2008, at 2:25 PM, Mick Collins wrote: Any ideas on emulating hypercard's play command? It's been a long time but I

Hypercard play command

Any ideas on emulating hypercard's play command? It's been a long time but I think the syntax was: play soundname -- to set the default tone/voice/etc play stop -- to stop the sound play c4e -- the note (c in a particular octave) and its length e (ighth) those might be a little off, and

two related questions (Galaxy and Rev)

I bought Galaxy (actually got it free with a future-re-up for Studio). I started using it and decided that there were things I needed to learn about it which I didn't at that time have time for. So I turned it off (and I think the button or menu item or preference) said temporarily.

Re: about the list

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about the list

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Re: The Documentation

I'll throw in my 2 cents worth here. After seeing the ad in a Rev newsletter or some place like that, I got the Beginning Programming for Dummies, and I was very, very, very disappointed. Among other things it seems like whoever wrote the Rev parts (and they were sparser or fewer than I

Re: Persistence options in standalones

Thanks everyone, especially for your article, Sarah. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Persistence options in standalones

Hello everyone, I know data can be saved, changed, appended to, etc in text files and stacks from standalones, but are there any options for having persistent data in standalones that do not require additional files? Thanks, - Mick ___

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 48, Issue 2

Thanks, Jacque (and Richard) for the explication (and with Mark S, I also wonder about Rev and disclosure triangles), I use OSX so I am very familiar with drawers (especially using them in iCal), I just didn't know what they were called and, I guess I knew but didn't recognize at the time

Drawers, documentation issue??

What am I missing here? I am running rev 2.8.1. I didn't know how to use drawers (in fact, didn't know exactly what was meant by a drawer). So I did what (I hope) anyone would do, I used the rev documentation (and I had downloaded the latest version of the docs a week ago). It clearly

Re: Wireframe animation engine examples?

Malte, I found, as you said, a bug in the AE docs on an example of the 3D (iso) stuff, related to password protection. You offered to send [me] a stack that demonstrates the functions. I said, Thanks, Malte, I would like a copy. Could you send it email? (I'd just let it wait for the

Re: Why Save the Mac Mini

Yes, Stephen, I have used a 17 in an airplane other than 1st Class. It was tight, but doable. Have you ever used a laptop smaller than 17 anywhere but on an airplane? It is fine to speak from your experience, but don't speak from your experience as if it is the be all and end all of

Re: Why Save the Mac Mini

Paul (Looney), I have copied Stephen B's post, and your reply and my reply ... which was to Stephen's claim, not yours. Sorry, I should have addressed it with his name. I just thought that he was making a claim that was perhaps valid for him, but he was stating it as if his needs and

Re: Why Save the Mac Mini

, but, in general, better for a lot of people. - Mick (Collins) On Saturday, July 14, 2007, at 11:17AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Judy (Katheryn), Children, probably OK. Dog votes, phantom votes, duplicate votes, definitely not OK. As of this morning, only 8877 votes to go... When the time comes that we

Re: Why Save the Mac Mini

I beg to differ. I use the (pre-Intel) 17 PowerBook (Apple) and because of what I use it for (math tutoring and educational development and demonstration) I could use a smaller laptop but that would not be practical for me for the tutoring aspect and no more practical for the development and

Re: [iText-questions] X Y Coordinates of a PDF

yes - I've always found positions through trial and error - if someone has a map of an 8 1/2 X11 it would be appreciated Mick From: NetDvlpr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Post all your questions about iText here itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [iText-questions] PdfReader question

What size pdfs are you dealing with? what are you doing -m reading and copying pdf? I'm processing thousands of pdfs in very short periods of time- minutes. I copy pages from one pdf to another, add blank pages, take blank pages out, stamp images using pdfStamper, count number of pages and

Re: [iText-questions] PdfReader question

of your method handling similar size files, please share. Thanks in advance, Bill Quoting Mick Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What size pdfs are you dealing with? what are you doing -m reading and copying pdf? I'm processing thousands of pdfs in very short periods of time- minutes. I copy

Re: [iText-questions] PdfReader question

are generated (Xerox MetaCode to PDF conversion). So there's a lot of embedded Type3 fonts, full page images, etc within the content. Bill Quoting Mick Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What size pdfs are you dealing with? what are you doing -m reading and copying pdf? I'm processing thousands of pdfs

Re: [iText-questions] PDF header signature not found

Although it is a change of subject It's been my experience that you need to close writer and reader objects when you do this kind of thing if you run this many times you may have too many fiels open at some point. M From: Bob Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Post all your questions about

Re: [iText-questions] can we detect Blank pages in PDF File or pageswith specific text or pattern

rivate int blankPdfsize = 20; public void removeBlankPdfPages(String pdfSourceFile, String pdfDestinationFile, boolean debug) { try { PdfReader r = new PdfReader(pdfSourceFile); RandomAccessFileOrArray raf = new RandomAccessFileOrArray(pdfSourceFile); Document document = new

Re: [iText-questions] Text to stamp in a pdf generating on the fly

great example at http://itextdocs.lowagie.com/examples/com/lowagie/examples/general/copystamp/AddWatermarkPageNumbers.java From: Carlos Bergueira [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Post all your questions about iText here itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net

[iText-questions] close method for PdfReader

In the javadocs a close method is listed but it does not exist in the code Does PdfReader close properly? Mick

[iText-questions] regarding PdfReader.close()

Thx Paulo - got latest and close is there I am in partial mode Nothing meant by close properly I could not find the close method in the source - maybe I have old source but the latest jar complied with a PdfReader.close() Mick --- All