Something for Colin Davies or other Mathematicians
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There is a discussion going about this in the Win tech off topic list. Does this paper make any sense :- http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/primality.pdf[^]
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There is a discussion going about this in the Win tech off topic list. Does this paper make any sense :- http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/primality.pdf[^]
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OMG What awful fonts that document does use! Is the whole thing a scanned bitmap or what?
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Shog9 If I could sleep forever, I could forget about everything...
Have you ever heard about LaTex? :) Tomasz Sowinski -- http://www.shooltz.com
What is "scratch" and why can everything be made from it?
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Have you ever heard about LaTex? :) Tomasz Sowinski -- http://www.shooltz.com
What is "scratch" and why can everything be made from it?
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Yeah... i thought people only used it for *printed* material though... :(
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Shog9 If I could sleep forever, I could forget about everything...
Shog9 wrote: i thought people only used it for *printed* material though They did print to PDF driver ;) Tomasz Sowinski -- http://www.shooltz.com
What is "scratch" and why can everything be made from it?
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Shog9 wrote: i thought people only used it for *printed* material though They did print to PDF driver ;) Tomasz Sowinski -- http://www.shooltz.com
What is "scratch" and why can everything be made from it?
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Have you ever heard about LaTex? :) Tomasz Sowinski -- http://www.shooltz.com
What is "scratch" and why can everything be made from it?
Ah - LaTeX... I *loved* using LaTeX while in Uni. While others wrote their theses using word processors we programmed our text in. So much fun. cheers, Chris Maunder
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Ah - LaTeX... I *loved* using LaTeX while in Uni. While others wrote their theses using word processors we programmed our text in. So much fun. cheers, Chris Maunder
What was the text quality? I always had the impression that TeX fonts were implemented using some old bitmap technology. Tomasz Sowinski -- http://www.shooltz.com
What is "scratch" and why can everything be made from it?
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There is a discussion going about this in the Win tech off topic list. Does this paper make any sense :- http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/primality.pdf[^]
Group Theory! Yay!! Quotient groups, cyclic groups, congruences...sigh... Look at proof of Lemma 4.4 It is clear that G is a Group. Did anyone else doing maths at University ever use the words "Clearly" or "It is clear" in desperation during an exam? Our lecturers used to always do it and of course you'd spend 2 hours going through the maths to show that, indeed, it was true. However, "true" does not equal "clearly true" in our books, but pretty much everyone I knew would at one point or another hit a proof that they knew had to be true but couldn't nail down the proof, so we'd right 'Clearly X is true'. We invariably got a big red cross with the word 'Why?' next to it though ;) cheers, Chris Maunder
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What was the text quality? I always had the impression that TeX fonts were implemented using some old bitmap technology. Tomasz Sowinski -- http://www.shooltz.com
What is "scratch" and why can everything be made from it?
I guess it depends on the implementation you were using but I've used TeX (and derivatives) both on Unix boxes and PCs and the output was vector based. Pretty much anything printed was done using TeX (since it was the only thing that could do equations) and they were all printed on 600dpi printers. The output was excellent. cheers, Chris Maunder
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Group Theory! Yay!! Quotient groups, cyclic groups, congruences...sigh... Look at proof of Lemma 4.4 It is clear that G is a Group. Did anyone else doing maths at University ever use the words "Clearly" or "It is clear" in desperation during an exam? Our lecturers used to always do it and of course you'd spend 2 hours going through the maths to show that, indeed, it was true. However, "true" does not equal "clearly true" in our books, but pretty much everyone I knew would at one point or another hit a proof that they knew had to be true but couldn't nail down the proof, so we'd right 'Clearly X is true'. We invariably got a big red cross with the word 'Why?' next to it though ;) cheers, Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote: Our lecturers used to always do it and of course you'd spend 2 hours going through the maths to show that Several of my professors used to say, "It turns out that x proves y" without actually explaining how x proves y. :mad: One of the funnier stories I heard was my roommate taking a trig class. During one of the lectures before a midterm, the professor explained a proof thusly: "You do this, and after a whole lot of work, it equals this." On the next midterm, the prof asked the class to prove the same equation. My roommated answered with "You do this, and after a whole lot of work, it equals this." He got 0 points on that question. :) I guess that method of proof is no more successful than proof by vigorous assertion. Jon Sagara "Bugs suck. Period." -- John Robbins
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Ah - LaTeX... I *loved* using LaTeX while in Uni. While others wrote their theses using word processors we programmed our text in. So much fun. cheers, Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote: I *loved* using LaTeX while in Uni. ** must hold back from sly comment **
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Group Theory! Yay!! Quotient groups, cyclic groups, congruences...sigh... Look at proof of Lemma 4.4 It is clear that G is a Group. Did anyone else doing maths at University ever use the words "Clearly" or "It is clear" in desperation during an exam? Our lecturers used to always do it and of course you'd spend 2 hours going through the maths to show that, indeed, it was true. However, "true" does not equal "clearly true" in our books, but pretty much everyone I knew would at one point or another hit a proof that they knew had to be true but couldn't nail down the proof, so we'd right 'Clearly X is true'. We invariably got a big red cross with the word 'Why?' next to it though ;) cheers, Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote: ever use the words "Clearly" or "It is clear" in desperation Yes, thay are an automatic signal that you are lost. Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
You are the intrepid one, always willing to leap into the fray! A serious character flaw, I might add, but entertaining. Said by Roger Wright about me.
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There is a discussion going about this in the Win tech off topic list. Does this paper make any sense :- http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/primality.pdf[^]
Anyone who publishes stuff like this in PDF has problems. Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
You are the intrepid one, always willing to leap into the fray! A serious character flaw, I might add, but entertaining. Said by Roger Wright about me.
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Have you ever heard about LaTex? :) Tomasz Sowinski -- http://www.shooltz.com
What is "scratch" and why can everything be made from it?
Tomasz Sowinski wrote: Have you ever heard about LaTex? They make ConDoms out of it, don't they? "Knock, knock." "Who's there?" "Recursion." "Recursion who?" "Knock, knock..."
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Group Theory! Yay!! Quotient groups, cyclic groups, congruences...sigh... Look at proof of Lemma 4.4 It is clear that G is a Group. Did anyone else doing maths at University ever use the words "Clearly" or "It is clear" in desperation during an exam? Our lecturers used to always do it and of course you'd spend 2 hours going through the maths to show that, indeed, it was true. However, "true" does not equal "clearly true" in our books, but pretty much everyone I knew would at one point or another hit a proof that they knew had to be true but couldn't nail down the proof, so we'd right 'Clearly X is true'. We invariably got a big red cross with the word 'Why?' next to it though ;) cheers, Chris Maunder
I had profs who would say things like, "The proof is left as an exercise for the student." We always assumed this meant that the teacher couldn't remember the damned derivation either.:mad: "Knock, knock." "Who's there?" "Recursion." "Recursion who?" "Knock, knock..."
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Anyone who publishes stuff like this in PDF has problems. Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
You are the intrepid one, always willing to leap into the fray! A serious character flaw, I might add, but entertaining. Said by Roger Wright about me.
Colin^Davies wrote: Anyone who publishes stuff like this in PDF has problems. Agreed. Thank goodness for Google's pdf-html facility. Simon "This is an equal opportunities airline. The pilot is blind." Sonork ID 100.10024
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Have you ever heard about LaTex? :) Tomasz Sowinski -- http://www.shooltz.com
What is "scratch" and why can everything be made from it?
Someone should've used pdftex :) FreeBSD is sexy. Getting closer and closer to actually submit an article...