Hi Jerry, I see anonymous voting down as a "sacred right" : if explanation is required, I think it should be required for all votes. Why should I waste my intellectual energy on posts I view as off-topic, poisoned by some political agenda or prejudice, or describing minutiae of details of someone's personal life as if CP' lounge was some kind of "reality tv" where I am "forced" to particiipate ? For technical articles, for me, that's a different story. I would give a brief note on a low vote IF I thought there was the slightest chance it would be a constructive comment. Think of it this way : I wipe my hands with a napkin to take off random spatter of a passing bird; the napkin belongs in the trash, not back on the table. best, Bill
"Many : not conversant with mathematical studies, imagine that because it [the Analytical Engine] is to give results in numerical notation, its processes must consequently be arithmetical, numerical, rather than algebraical and analytical. This is an error. The engine can arrange and combine numerical quantities as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and it fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly." Ada, Countess Lovelace, 1844
