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[scylis]

Gee, Mr. Lizard!

this big jet engine sure is neat!

"it will be even neater when i turn it on, Timmy!"

oo! do you think you could turn it on, Mr. Lizard?

"why, sure, Timmy! just let me get behind this 3 in. thick asbestos sheild, first!"

ok!

"you can put your head right up in it to get an even better view, Timmy!"

really! cool! *sticks head in exaust nozzle*

"ready, Timmy?"

yeah!

*Mr Lizard throws the switch and Timmy's head is vaporized in the few seconds the afterburner is on. the singed, headless corpse falls over backwards onto the floor*

"We're gonna need another Timmy!"

 

[morninggirl5]

And you would actually program that whole bit????

 

[LittleRedDevil]

You guys make a girls head spin.

 

[Weird Harold]

And you would actually program that whole bit????

Re: guru's redition of Pi?

No, to use that value, you program it as "Radius * Pi" Where "Radius" is a variaable you have assigned some value to, and "Pi" is a constant that the programming language has already pre-assigned that long string of digits to.

Guru,
Just in retrieval time alone, Reals are slower than Integers. The Pentium FPU is very fast, and it's probably relatively faster as well, But just the nature of a "Shift Left" to divide by two means that it can be done in memory and never get loaded into the processor at all. The new GHz processors mean that timing differences in individual operations don't dd up as fast as they did with 4 Mhz systems or even 50 MHz systems.

Processor, memory, and storage improvements have made attention to that kind of detail unimportant to programmers now -- but it should be important.

Forgetting, or foregoing, that kind of concern leads to Operating Systems that require 500MB of disk space to install tht don't do much more than their predecessors ttht only used 25MB of disk space.

 

[Renegade]

Tabby

So Blues thread can catch up.

Blue has a thread?