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ricecake wrote: Maybe the English word you want is "polyhedron", which is the three-dimensional analogue of a polygon.
Thanks for the term.
Jeremy Falcon
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Computer scientists (beginners) hunt an elephant therby starting following algorithm:
1. goto africa
2. start at cape of good hope
3. go through africa from south to north and bidirectional from east to west
4. for every loop:
5. hunt every animal you can find
6. compare every animal with the animal given as elephant
7. stop on match
Mathematicians (beginners) hunt elephants by terminating every animal that is not an elephant and then hunting one exemple of the remaining set.
Mathematicians (advanced) try to proof the excistence of elephants before they start with the beginners method as an inferior exercise.
Mathematic professors proof the existence of one elephant at minimum and then give their students the exercise to hunt a real elephant.
Statisticians shot one time in front of the elephant, one time behind the elephant, so that the elephant is statistically dead.
Economists don't hunt any elephants, but they are convinced that elephants deliver themselves up, if enough money is paid to them.
Java-Programmers make a type cast from a midge. (Same for C# Programmers) 
Regards,
Ingo
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PROST Roleplaying Game
War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who's left.
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ihoecken wrote: 1. goto africa
maybe mathematicians finally use VB... 
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toxcct wrote: maybe mathematicians finally use VB...
The best and fasted programming language ever? Who knows! 
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War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who's left.
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ihoecken wrote: The best and fasted programming language ever?
ok, i give you a chance : i'm not there, and i didn't hear what you've just said 
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I just encountered a goto statement in some c++ microsoft code (olevar.cpp) today. Either goto is da sh*t, or someone got lazy.
- S
50 cups of coffee and you know it's on!
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might be a trainee who wrote this file... 
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Steve Echols wrote: I just encountered a goto statement in some c++ microsoft code (olevar.cpp) today
Well, you can use the "goto" statement in C# too. Not long ago I saw code that used this statement. Giant routines and they jumped cross the code, back and somewhere else. It was hard to read and then the programmer made and error he couldn't finde, because of declaration of some variables...
I don't know why "goto" is available in so called "modern" languages like C#. 
Regards,
Ingo
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PROST Roleplaying Game
War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who's left.
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ihoecken wrote: I don't know why "goto" is available in so called "modern" languages like C#.
Wrong question.
I don't know why those people are allowed to program
Gotos don't kill source, bad programmers do.
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peterchen wrote: Wrong question.
I don't know why those people are allowed to program
Gotos don't kill source, bad programmers do.
Ok, that's right. There can be good code using gotos. But I still don't know for what it should be good in C#??? 
Regards,
Ingo
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PROST Roleplaying Game
War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who's left.
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ihoecken wrote: Statisticians shot one time in front of the elephant, one time behind the elephant, so that the elephant is statistically dead.
This is a good one 
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click.ok wrote: My favorite math website
you'll have to change it... now, all math stuff end here[^]  
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toxcct wrote: you'll have to change it...
I was just thinking that.
Jeremy Falcon
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I second toxcct on his post. No other resource is worth looking at now.
-- modified at 6:30 Thursday 27th July, 2006
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click.ok wrote: What's your favorite math website.
This one.
"Money talks. When my money starts to talk, I get a bill to shut it up." - Frank
"Judge not by the eye but by the heart." - Native American Proverb
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MathWorld[^]
"People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them." - Anonymous
Web - Blog - RSS - Math - LinkedIn
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I replied to you by mistake. I could swear I replied to the poster. Did you delete your message? 
There are II kinds of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who understand Roman numerals. Web - Blog - RSS - Math
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Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote: Did you delete your message?
No, it's still here.
"Money talks. When my money starts to talk, I get a bill to shut it up." - Frank
"Judge not by the eye but by the heart." - Native American Proverb
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I meant the one from the email. It doesn't seem to be here cause I cilcked on the link and it's not here.
"I know which side I want to win regardless of how many wrongs they have to commit to achieve it." - Stan Shannon
Web - Blog - RSS - Math - LinkedIn
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I'll have to 3rd MathWorld, but I'm hoping with the brains on CP, this forum will give them a run for their money.
Jeremy Falcon
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Blonde Geometry
Attached is problem 3 on a geometry examination. It is the solution submitted by a beautiful blonde student. It is our understanding that after careful scrutiny, the student was given credit for the answer by the teacher. When hearing of this the Board of Education warned math teachers to be more explicit in the wording of examination problems but was hesitant to suggest how.
Blonde cuts to the chase to find the X and eliminates all Geometry formulas.
Click here.[^]
There are II kinds of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who understand Roman numerals. Web - Blog - RSS - Math
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oh, that's a keeper.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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