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If you can't decide to get your child a pet or a toy for Christmas, have you considered a rattlesnake?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Is this for the good children or the bad ones?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Reminds me of Halloween: Venom giving out my favorite favor to the tykes => mashed potatoes (by the scoop). Well, they did say "Trick OR Treat". If they don't like it and cry, we could viper cheeks dry and let them slither off to the next door
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Fangs for the advice - venom out shopping I will pick one up (carefully, of course)!
I, for one, like Roman Numerals.
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Asp someone else, I don't know.
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All of this because microsoft doesn't expose the tables they use behind char.IsLetter() and the like 
Like, did they think nobody would ever need to use the unicode category codes for things?
Their enumeration isn't even flags.
for(var i = 0;i<char.MaxValue;++i)
{
char ch = unchecked((char)i);
var uc = char.GetUnicodeCategory(ch);
switch(uc)
{
case UnicodeCategory.ClosePunctuation:
_AddTo(working, "Pe", ch);
_AddTo(working, "P", ch);
break;
case UnicodeCategory.ConnectorPunctuation:
_AddTo(working, "Pc", ch);
_AddTo(working, "P", ch);
break;
case UnicodeCategory.Control:
_AddTo(working, "Cc", ch);
_AddTo(working, "C", ch);
break;
case UnicodeCategory.CurrencySymbol:
_AddTo(working, "Sc", ch);
_AddTo(working, "S", ch);
break;
case UnicodeCategory.DashPunctuation:
_AddTo(working, "Pd", ch);
_AddTo(working, "P", ch);
break;
case UnicodeCategory.DecimalDigitNumber:
_AddTo(working, "Nd", ch);
_AddTo(working, "N", ch);
break;
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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And on that note, why couldn't they expose the Number class?
There are many times I would have liked that.
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I'm just happy to have biginteger.
now if only they'd give us a bigreal.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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You're a programmer. Write it yourself.
Here's a start:
class BigReal : IComparable<BigReal>, IEquatable<BigReal>, IConvertible, IFormattable
{
public bool sign { get; private set; }
public long biasedExponent { get; private set; }
public List<ulong> mantissa { get; private set; }
}
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I don't have the math skills for that.
Ever done an efficient multiply on an arbitrary length FP?
I know it's not easy.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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The best algorithm depends on the size(s) of the mantissa and the size of the machine word. See the MPFR package for details.
I have written multiplication algorithms using the standard O(N^2) method, Karatsuba's O(N^lg3) method, and the Fourier transform O(N*lg(N)*lg(lg(N))) methods.
Recently, an algorithm was described for an O(N*lg(N)) method, but I can't say that I understand it.
The big problems are actually division and square root. They can be implemented using an fma (fused multiply add), which calculates A*B+C with only one rounding (for the addition).
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I know stuff like division and square root are harder. I couldn't even do multiply.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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That's OK; I can't do anything with CodeDOM 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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LOL
The codedom doesn't require any technical skills. Coding against it is gruntwork. That was the whole point of Slang - to eliminate that. =)
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Last week, an uncle died on a plane on his way home to Tenerife.
Had he died a few hours earlier he would've been in the Netherlands (where he'll be buried) and a few hours later he would be with his wife.
Now, getting his body back from the flying company and back to the Netherlands is quite some trouble, I understood.
It's never really a good time to die, but just before the holidays must be extra painful to his wife.
Not only that, today would be his birthday, which Facebook makes sure you remember.
A couple of people left a message "happy birthday and to many more years!" 
Not the time, not the place and way to early (he'd be 76 today) 
I wasn't close to him by the way, I've seen him once of twice in the past ten years.
Must be a heck of a month for his wife though 
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There's rarely a good time to go, but ... on a plane, among strangers, just before Christmas?
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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2019 has been a bit of a sucky year all round!
modified 16-Dec-19 5:46am.
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God it has.
Hugs and peace to all.
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I think we said that about last year too.
And the year before
cheers
Chris Maunder
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So sorry to hear the sad news.
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I'd rather be phishing!
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My condolences to his family and friends.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Suspicions about spray stains (9)
Added s to remove loophole in solution
Spray : Mist
Stains : Rust
Suspicions - Mistrusts
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
modified 16-Dec-19 9:26am.
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RESISTANT?
There's an anagram of STAINS in there, and ABOUT would be RE, but I can't justify the extra "T".
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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