mjcohen

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   by mjcohen 16y ago

   This is really deja vu all over again. Over 45 years ago I read a "largest number that can be computed with expressions on a postcard" competition in a publication of some college (details escape me as to which college). This was held over
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   by mjcohen 16y ago

   This reminded me very much of the great effort that Knuth (as a commenter mentioned) put into both his monumental TeX formatting system and MetaFont font generation program in a (imho) successful attempt to enable the preparation of beautif
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   by mjcohen 16y ago

   The (original) Palm had well-executed cut and paste from the beginning. Of course it uses a stylus, but that also means much greater precision when selecting. Too bad that Palm stopped developing its original OS - I still enjoy my Treo, but
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   by mjcohen 16y ago

   If we know where the yellow dots go, just print a yellow rectangle over them.
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   by mjcohen 16y ago

   Historical note: In the movie "Pi", the golden ratio appeared in a drawing of the subdivided rectangle, but they got the ratio wrong! It should have been (a+b)/a = a/b, but they wrote (a+b)/a = b/a, which is obviously wrong. btw, I enjoyed