Re: [NF] Re: [FW] Programming language life expectancy

This problem was part of my OU Maths foundation course. It does not have a simple solution, involves a lot of trigonometry and then iteration to converge to the solution. As I recall, the answer, was about 0.6 of the radius. Laurie On 2 September 2017 at 13:52, AndyHC

Re: [NF] Re: [FW] Programming language life expectancy

The first computer I owned was a Dragon32, but I had learned BASIC years before on a GE remote time-sharing mainframe. With the instructor's help I wrote an algorithmic solution to a maths puzzle that had plagued me for years. If anyone wants to try it, here's the puzzle: A farmer tethers a

Re: [NF] Re: [FW] Programming language life expectancy

Yup - I indeed started w/BASIC! On 9/1/2017 1:04 PM, Laurie Alvey wrote: Didn't everyone at least dabble with BASIC? I started out with a Commodore VIC20 which (I believe), had 3.2 kB of RAM. Laurie On 1 September 2017 at 16:56, wrote: On

Re: [NF] Re: [FW] Programming language life expectancy

Same chip as original Apple II. Yeah baby! On 9/1/2017 1:11 PM, Jean MAURICE wrote: Hi Laurie, I had a Vic20 and I think it was the first microcomputer to have 64koctets of memory. It was based on a 6502 microprocessor. I spent a lot of nights with it before meeting my future wife !

Re: [NF] Re: [FW] Programming language life expectancy

+1 Paul Ps: first real program was to determine if a frog was sitting 8 feet away from a pond and he could jump half the distance to the pond with each jump, how many jumps would it take to reach the water? Any guesses? Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 1, 2017, at 7:13 PM, Fred Taylor