On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, paresh mathur wrote:
> Geesh Hugh that was preety slick tell me did you came up with all this by
> your self
yes, I'd have attributed anything significant. Well, if you want to know
what made me think of them:
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> Graphing tool, just simple, lines, bars, pie charts.
Always running into this, but simple cases are reachable.
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> Something to checksum files and probe a search engine to find a match
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A recent post of mine to this list. Anyone care to reply to that? :-)
> Dice -- select how many dice of 1,2,3,4...20 sides, press button to roll.
Usual gaming stuff 4,10,and 20 are common in role-playing games.
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> Something to select random {words, lines, chars, quoted strings} from
> a file. Buzzphrase-enabled, textual verbiage generation assistant.
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I sent patches to the random-data gem, in the last year or so.
> A number explorer: input a number, is it a square, cube, prime, perfect
> number?
Just been reading about Gauss's familiarity with numbers up to 1000, and
how he spent most of one year doing one calculation.
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> Lowest common factor finder. Fraction canceller.
as above, same source (Oxford User's Guide to Mathematics)
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> One button device to tell you sales tax, VAT, on a product, compute
> values of resistors in parallel, or some other mind-numbingly tedious
> but simple thing you often have to calculate.
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I've done this for VAT before now (Value Added Tax, presently 17.5% here)
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> GUI front end to things in the ruby quizzes
These all look like mini quizzes....
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> Pong simulator: can you have too many replicas of late 1970's
> electronic TV tennis?
Simple case of graphics, doable by the shoes programmer. Also
the BBC's "Horizon 2002" shown in 1977, in which they looked ahead
from the Queen's Silver Jubilee to her Golden Jubilee. Nice scene
with a flat screen TV hung on the wall, on which they were playing
Pong :-) She's visiting Google.co.uk today. I can't see if they
changed the graphics for Google.com, to reflect this, I get kicked
back to the UK when I do that.
Hugh
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