On the desire, the line than contains the buttons "", [], ... slightly overflow, so the last button ^() ends up using two lines. I think that the space between...
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hb9duj
Aug 1, 2010 10:40 am
Ooops, while creating the mail to ask how to get the up arrow functionality on the Android, I realized that the 'trackball' is used for that and works fine...
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hb9duj
Aug 8, 2010 7:35 am
The following code tesults im a forced closed (htc desire 2.1): startGPS[] p=getGPSLocationJava[] stopGPS[] println["done"] -- hb9duj...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Aug 8, 2010 11:21 am
... Thanks for the nice, concise test case! This was a weird race condition that could happen if you stopped the GPS before the GPS-receiving thread even had...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Aug 8, 2010 11:25 am
You'll probably find that the recent releases of Frink for Android greatly improved the behavior of both conversion and programming modes when the display is...
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hb9duj
Aug 8, 2010 1:20 pm
Thanks,I confirm that the correction works, there is no more forced close. I was able to display locations using the following programs. However a couple of...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Aug 9, 2010 3:04 am
... That's probably normal if you haven't had the GPS on in a long time. Your unit will have to download ephemeris data from at least 4 satellites before it...
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Bruce
leenstrab
Oct 6, 2010 12:08 am
My friend installed Java 6.0 on his vista machine and then installed Frink from the website. He's not sure which method and it didn't work so he fiddled with...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Oct 6, 2010 12:53 am
... From that, it's clear that he used Java Web Start to initially launch Frink, and is trying to use that cached file to start it again. That's not really...
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Bruce
leenstrab
Oct 6, 2010 9:45 am
Hi Alan! Everything is working great, thanks! I grabbed frink.jar and modified the batch file. Now Frink starts in programming mode with plenty of stack space...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Oct 10, 2010 11:41 pm
... Glad to hear that it works! ... Interesting! I looked up the Eternity II puzzle. Has someone won it yet? Their website is stuck in 2009, and says...
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Bruce
leenstrab
Oct 14, 2010 9:44 pm
I don't think anyone has solved the Eternity II puzzle yet. Submissions received during the year are not looked at until very late December - so they can keep...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Oct 24, 2010 10:52 am
This is why Android will forever be cooler than the iPhone: I noticed the following call in the Android API: 'ActivityManager.isUserAMonkey() : Returns "true"...
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Daniel Kersten
dkersten@...
Oct 24, 2010 9:29 pm
That is, by far, the most awesome API call ever created. ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Feb 8, 2011 8:30 pm
The latest version of Frink has some interesting new features: * The "input" function can now prompt the user for multiple pieces of information with a nice...
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LanceGary
Feb 11, 2011 8:03 pm
... I laughed when I read this. however, when repeating the story to otehrs I was told: "A monkey is a program which simulates thousands of random inputs,...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Mar 10, 2011 9:55 am
Frink now allows C/C++/Java-style block comments that can span multiple lines or part of a line. In other words, comments that look like this: /* This is a...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Mar 20, 2011 10:12 am
=== SUPERMOON? OR PRETTY CLOSE TO AVERAGE? === The much-hyped "supermoon" of this past evening was overhyped and poorly-reported by a lot of media. Some...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Apr 1, 2011 4:10 pm
As you may have seen from my postings on "pi day," I've been playing around with Frink programs to generate lots and lots of digits of pi. I've written a few...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Apr 2, 2011 9:15 pm
In response to my note about graphing digits from pi yesterday, I've found an even more interesting sequence: http://futureboy.us/temp/pigraph.html I'll also...
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Bruce
leenstrab
Apr 2, 2011 10:33 pm
I tried to improve the speed of root.frink by using Newton–Raphson division but instead it tripled the time spent in sqrt. (for 10000 digits) The time was...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Apr 3, 2011 5:30 am
... Thanks for doing that experiment! I did approximately the same test when I was trying to make it faster. I implemented Newton division (or rather just...
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Laszlo Hars
lacko50
Apr 3, 2011 9:35 pm
You could find some general arithmetic speedup techniques in the paper: http://downloads.hindawi.com/journals/es/2007/061721.pdf Section 6 and 7 deal with...
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Bruce
leenstrab
Apr 12, 2011 12:53 pm
Hi Alan, This could go on-list, *but it's so quiet there.* I was mangling, uh, exploring root.frink again and recalled an integer sequence I tried to extend...
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Laszlo Hars
lacko50
Apr 12, 2011 8:02 pm
Bruce, Why don't you find the prime factors of x? The smallest factor f which makes f*x a square contains the prime factors of x, which have odd exponent....
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Apr 12, 2011 10:49 pm
... Well, it did go on-list. :) I'm considering creating a second list for more in-depth programming discussions for those who want to dig deeply into...
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Bruce
leenstrab
Apr 13, 2011 1:31 am
Hi Laszlo, Forgive me, you are correct, but I was only saying that the two ways I found to solve my for-fun problem use either Big square roots or AND, OR...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Apr 13, 2011 1:43 am
New additions to today's (2011-04-12) release of Frink: * Frink now returns exact integer and rational roots for numbers when possible. Previously, exact...
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Bruce
leenstrab
Apr 13, 2011 3:54 am
Alan, It would be nice if there were some kind of active connection between the two lists. Perhaps each email list optionally reporting a count of posts to the...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Apr 14, 2011 2:25 am
I have created a new mailing list (frink-discuss) for more in-depth discussions about Frink: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/frink-discuss/ The new list is...
