Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:
: That is an absurd presumption. Why should I have to sit here and
: mentally calculate values when absolutes are instantly readable ?

  You don't need to calculate the result. You only need to understand where
does the expression come from.
  For example, if a cylinder is located at <1,2,3> and another cylinder is
located at <7,8,9>, putting a sphere exactly half-way in the middle of them
is easier to do and understand by writing (<1,2,3>+<7,8,9>)/2 than writing
the result. The result will probably not tell you anything (perhaps you
could guess that it's somewhere between the two cylinders, but you couldn't
be sure without making that calculation anyways).

  3/7 is a lot more clear than 0.4285714285

-- 
main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
):_;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/

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