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On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 21:15:22 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> I could go on... GIYF.
<checks that gravity is still working>
Yep, gravity's still on. ;-)
Jim
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Mike Raiford escreveu:
> On 9/22/2010 12:02 PM, nemesis wrote:
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>>
>> neverending revelations... pi *has* uppercase... *head spins*
>>
>
> Greek, like Latin has both upper and lower case.
I'm used to Scheme, you case-sensitive clod!
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On 23/09/2010 12:59 PM, Invisible wrote:
> Yes - but you must be careful that it's spelt the word you actually
> want. (!)
>
True
> Well, whatever.
Hmm!
> In the case of knowing the Greek alphabet, this is
> trivially searchable. Indeed, you just need to type "Greek alphabet"
> into Wikipedia...
Or just remember it.
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Stephen
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And lo On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:15:45 +0100, Mike Raiford
<"m[raiford]!at"@gmail.com> did spake thusly:
> On 9/23/2010 6:59 AM, Invisible wrote:
>
>
>> Well, whatever. In the case of knowing the Greek alphabet, this is
>> trivially searchable. Indeed, you just need to type "Greek alphabet"
>> into Wikipedia...
>
> That is, of course, if you know the character you're looking at belongs
> to the Greek alphabet. Otherwise, googling is futile.
>
> Though, I guess since it's a mathematical symbol chances are, it's Greek.
Although if you know its a mathematical symbol you can Google that and get
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_mathematical_symbols as the first
return and just scroll down that until you see the same one ;-)
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Phil Cook
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And lo On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:10:44 +0100, Mike Raiford
<"m[raiford]!at"@gmail.com> did spake thusly:
> On 9/22/2010 12:02 PM, nemesis wrote:
>
>>
>> neverending revelations... pi *has* uppercase... *head spins*
>>
>
> Greek, like Latin has both upper and lower case.
Or to put it another way Greek like Latin has only upper case letters with
lower case being only a recent introduction ;-)
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Phil Cook
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http://flipc.blogspot.com
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On 24/09/2010 09:44 AM, Phil Cook v2 wrote:
> Although if you know its a mathematical symbol you can Google that and
> get http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_mathematical_symbols as the
> first return and just scroll down that until you see the same one ;-)
And, like it says at the very top, "this list is incomplete". ;-)
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On 9/23/2010 7:26 AM, Invisible wrote:
> Good luck looking up Aleph and Beth. ;-)
Hebrew... I learned about א₀ from the commentary on
Futurama of
all things.
(Apologies if that doesn't show properly ... Some fonts may not contain
the proper glyphs, and I had a hell of a time with the whole RTL thing
and getting the proper control code in there to revert from RTL to LTR.
Hebrew characters inline can be a bit bothersome ;)
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~Mike
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On 24/09/2010 12:56 PM, Mike Raiford wrote:
> Hebrew characters inline can be a bit bothersome ;)
You think that's bad? You try doing *arithmetic* with transfinite
cardinal numbers! :-P
Almost any function of infinity IS ALSO infinity! >_<
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On 9/23/2010 12:50 PM, nemesis wrote:
> Mike Raiford escreveu:
>> On 9/22/2010 12:02 PM, nemesis wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> neverending revelations... pi *has* uppercase... *head spins*
>>>
>>
>> Greek, like Latin has both upper and lower case.
>
> I'm used to Scheme, you case-sensitive clod!
>
Case sensitivity gives me twice as many characters available for
variable names!
;)
As a fun aside... apparently C# will accept any
non-number/non-punctuator as a valid variable name. This is valid C#
code and will compile and execute (and give completely wrong results):
private static double Γ(double z)
{
// in reality this would actually return the result of the
gamma function...
return z;
}
static void Main(string[] args)
{
Console.WriteLine("The value of the gamma function is: " +
Γ(1));
Console.ReadKey();
}
A good way to piss off your co-workers, for sure.. XD
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~Mike
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On 9/24/2010 7:24 AM, Invisible wrote:
> On 24/09/2010 12:56 PM, Mike Raiford wrote:
>
>> Hebrew characters inline can be a bit bothersome ;)
>
> You think that's bad? You try doing *arithmetic* with transfinite
> cardinal numbers! :-P
>
> Almost any function of infinity IS ALSO infinity! >_<
I think I'll hold off on that one for a little while. ;)
--
~Mike
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