International PI Day Is Coming

PIEBALDconsult

Oh, no... back to therapy... :sigh: Here's a comment I wrote nearly twenty years ago:

// The version of PI we are currently running does not include pisn_sendexcepstruc which we want to use
// so it is commented out and pisn_sendexceptions is used instead.
// When pisn_sendexcepstruc becomes available, this should be changed

// pisn_sendexcepstruc(line_array [line].tag [index].pt ,
// line_array [line].tag [index].type ,
// &(line_array [line].tag [index].except) ,
// &(line_array [line].tag [index].count));

0bx

Most interesting fact about pi: you only need the first 6 digits to send a spacecraft into orbit of another star, yet some people memorize 100 digits of the number and it makes them feel smart.

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Amarnath S

Not in this part of the world. dd/mm/yyyy here.* For us, there is a somewhat coarse way: 22/7. (355/113 is better, but no day like that). Nothing like 3.141592653 seems possible here :-( * India

Rob Grainger

Here in the UK we have to wait for 31/4/15 9:26:53.

"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough." Alan Kay.

Tim Carmichael

Oooo... API calls... been using the SDK for so long now, I forgot out all of that joy. Mind you, my experience goes back to Toolkit calls when it was on VAX/VMS.

PIEBALDconsult

Tim Carmichael wrote:

VAX/VMS

Yes. This was that. The fall of 1995. The guy who hired me called it "an Alpha-based VAX", which makes no sense at all, like saying "Pentium-based 486".

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

then 31.4.15 9:26:53

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Amarnath S · then 31.4.15 9:26:53

+5 Sure. Yes. Slipped my mind :-( (I was looking for 3.xx and not 31.xx; too much thinking 'inside the box')

Lost User

PIEBALDconsult wrote:

VAX/VMS

Yes. This was that. The fall of 1995. The guy who hired me called it "an Alpha-based VAX", which makes no sense at all, like saying "Pentium-based 486".

VAX/VMS was originally a 32bit system. In the early '90s it was ported to the Alpha chip (64bit) Perhaps you were being informed you would be working on the 64bit (Alpha-based) version?

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PIEBALDconsult

That would just be an Alpha (as I'm sure it was), with which I was already familiar. It's also possible the system had originally been a VAX and then refurbished to be an Alpha. :shrug:

Ravi Bhavnani

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Jorgen Andersson · then 31.4.15 9:26:53

Have you had a look in a calendar before you wrote that. :-D

Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

LOL. Of course. :-D

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz · Here in the UK we have to wait for 31/4/15 9:26:53.

You must have a different calendar than what we do in the US. For us, April has only 30 days. :-D

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein

Jorgen Andersson

:thumbsup:

Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello

Rob Grainger

Well done, you caught my intentional mistake ;-) :: cough :: Guess I'll have to wait until the 3rd of January, 4159.

"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough." Alan Kay.

Nicholas Marty · then 31.4.15 9:26:53

And here I thought april only has 30 days. ;-P

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

See here[^]

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein

Nicholas Marty

Yeah. I noticed that when I continued reading in this thread :-O