Re: stashing an array in a hash and yanking it back out

2020-03-11 Thread yary
The fat-arrow example makes sense, what this says %stash = rocks => @rocks is "replace %stash in its entirety with key rocks gets value @rocks" anything that used to be in %stash doesn't matter because this assignment (left side) is the entirety of %stash what this says %stash{'rocks'} = @rocks

Re: irrational nubmer?

2020-03-11 Thread Todd Chester via perl6-users
On 2020-03-11 01:23, Todd Chester via perl6-users wrote: On 2020-03-10 22:55, Shlomi Fish wrote: Speaking of trivia, and off topic, did you know that √2 caused a major religious upheaval when the result of a 1,1,√2 triangle came out?  The poor Pythagoreans: all numbers had to be rational. 

Re: irrational nubmer?

2020-03-11 Thread Todd Chester via perl6-users
On 2020-03-10 22:55, Shlomi Fish wrote: Speaking of trivia, and off topic, did you know that √2 caused a major religious upheaval when the result of a 1,1,√2 triangle came out? The poor Pythagoreans: all numbers had to be rational. Hippasus even got murdered for blowing the whistle on √2.

Re: irrational nubmer?

2020-03-11 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Todd! On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 12:32:57 -0800 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: > On 2020-02-26 12:14, Tobias Boege wrote: > > On Wed, 26 Feb 2020, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: > $ p6 'say (99/70).base-repeating();' > (1.4 142857) > > means that 142857 also repeats