... Kelly, This is addressed (in some detail) in the FAQ: http://futureboy.us/frinkdocs/faq.html#WhenXIsAnInterval Please note again that there have been...
247
Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Aug 4, 2009 7:48 am
... When thinking about this issue, I noticed that x-x can be simplified a bit more aggressively than it was before; the current (2009-08-04) release of Frink...
248
Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Aug 4, 2009 11:09 pm
... This change turned out to be overly aggressive, and the changes were removed. If you downloaded Frink earlier today, I'd recommend getting the current...
249
Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Aug 5, 2009 4:54 am
... (For reference, this is in regards to Frink's high-accuracy sun/moon/astronomical calculation library, located at: http://futureboy.us/frinksamp/sun.frink...
250
Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Aug 12, 2009 9:34 am
Adding two simple little functions to Frink has allowed it to animate graphics. The animations are remarkably smooth (double-buffered on a modern JVM) for...
251
Kelly Jones
kelly.terry.jones@...
Aug 23, 2009 3:48 pm
Frink uses websites and page-scraping for many of its functions. Can Frink use SOAP/REST methods directly? -- We're just a Bunch Of Regular Guys, a collective...
252
Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Aug 25, 2009 6:07 am
The Frink web site is finally back up, which should also fix problems with running Frink under Java Web Start. I had a major technical problem on the 16th and...
253
Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Aug 31, 2009 1:04 am
The current release of Frink (2009-08-30) fixes a problem that could occur when raising a floating-point number to a large negative rational power. This could...
254
Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Aug 31, 2009 1:13 am
... The short answer is that I haven't written any SOAP methods myself in Frink, and I'm not aware of anyone who has. (But I've found that doesn't mean much.)...
255
Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Sep 14, 2009 8:21 am
The current release (2009-09-14) of Frink fixes a potentially severe bug in class initialization that happens under certain circumstances. It is very highly...
256
Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Dec 17, 2009 6:39 am
I'm happy to announce the first release of the Frink programming language and calculating tool for the Android mobile phone platform. Android is an...
257
rdratman
Dec 21, 2009 10:12 pm
I've used a few units calculators but have not yet tried Frink. Please excuse the question if this is in the documentation -- I know it's impolite, but those...
258
Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Jan 27, 2010 11:16 am
The current release of Frink (2010-01-27) fixes a bug that might stop your program with the message "Expression requires 2 or more arguments." It is highly...
259
Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Feb 14, 2010 5:49 am
The current release of Frink has several bugfixes and improvements: * Fixed a problem that could cause the error "Error in evaluation: Expression requires 2 or...
260
Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Feb 15, 2010 2:22 am
Here's a little message from Frink. You can either download and run this program: http://futureboy.us/frinksamp/vd.frink Or, just execute the statement: use...
261
Ralph Dratman
rdratman
Feb 16, 2010 6:18 am
Hi Alan. Your "love"-ly program works. It's interesting. I have a couple of questions. 1) I can run the Valentine's Day program once, but only once, for each ...
262
Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Feb 16, 2010 7:18 am
... It is what you should expect if you understand the "use" statement to be an "include" statement that automatically protects against multiple inclusion of...
263
Ralph Dratman
rdratman
Feb 16, 2010 4:49 pm
Alan, Thanks much for the explanations. This interval stuff is interesting, sort of a mixture of combinatorics, analysis and topology. Now I envision the ...
264
Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Feb 21, 2010 9:03 am
... I'm glad that someone delved into the workings of that little program. It's surprisingly powerful and technically interesting. ... I've been playing...
265
Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Feb 22, 2010 2:24 pm
The current version of Frink (available in the Android Market) fixes some problems with graphics on Android 1.5 (and other releases?) These may have caused...
266
Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Jul 8, 2010 10:50 am
Here's a somewhat interesting article about the upcoming "Emerging Languages Camp" at O'Reilly's OSCON conference, which discusses Frink a bit. I'll be...
267
Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Jul 8, 2010 10:56 am
... Oops. It would help if I included the URL: http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/07/the-next-wave-of-programming-l.html -- Alan Eliasen eliasen@... ...
268
Ralph Dratman
rdratman
Jul 8, 2010 11:47 am
"The discussion of me in the article is pretty amusing, even if it never actually happened." So then what *did *actually happen? Ralph Dratman ... [Non-text...
269
Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Jul 8, 2010 10:42 pm
... The real chain of events was addressed in my comments at the bottom of the article, including a quote of what I *actually* wrote. I've learned a good...
270
Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Jul 20, 2010 4:36 am
This new release adds some fun but not-really-reliable language translations from Google's Translate engine. Also included are functions to guess the language...
271
Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Jul 26, 2010 4:06 am
New Member jmlugrin@... posted the following message that I approved earlier but seems to be lost in Yahoo, so I'm quoting it here ... Hi, I tried...
272
hb9duj
Jul 26, 2010 4:14 pm
Thanks, I may try to find a less precise algorithm, need to digg in the Meeus books and some others I have. -- hb9duj...
273
hb9duj
Jul 26, 2010 4:22 pm
I would like to take some actions at specific time (more precisely give a warning using speak[] every couple of minutes based on a simple algorithm). Using...
274
Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Jul 26, 2010 6:49 pm
... The algorithm I used is the same as the one in Meeus*, with the only difference being that I use *all* the terms of the full VSOP-87 theory, rather than...
275
Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Jul 26, 2010 8:40 pm
... Short answer: * You could obtain a wake lock (perhaps a PARTIAL_WAKE_LOCK) using android.os.PowerManager to keep the system from going to sleep, but that ...
