RE: PPIG discuss: mathematics

2002-09-11 Thread Lindsay Marshall
Wouldn't that describe any computer program? Now you see why state machines are important!! L. - Automatic footer for [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe discuss To join the announcements list, mail [EMAIL

Re: PPIG discuss: mathematics

2002-09-11 Thread Thomas Green
How about a concrete example? For some reason I once did a little program to convert between RGB and HSB. It's on my home site, and every now and again I get a query like this one: Hello, I just found your web page with the Java [Javascript, actually. TG] applet that converts between RGB and

RE: PPIG discuss: mathematics

2002-09-11 Thread Lindsay Marshall
People in this thread (me included!) have been talking about Maths and programming, but a CS course is more than programming - there is a lot of theory as well and the Maths that gets taught is really so that people can cope with things like formal methods and analysis of algorithms and