... I always seem to be the one making more work for you... ... Rather than targetting pixels, is there any way you could target something like postscript?...
... I'd certainly like to implement Frink's graphic libraries as rendering lines, rectangles, and curves instead of pixels. That way it's directly scalable,...
I've no idea if this would work, but i'm going to try thinking on paper about how to make a curved graph from a set of interval-calculated pixels. Each pixel,...
I asked a physicist friend if he had anything to add to this discussion. His interesting, but deeply unhelpful answer to the question of [2, 4] < [3, 5]...
... This answer reminds me strongly of Richard Feynman's description of his mental fitness test for the army. As recounted in his excellent book, "Surely...
... [snip] ... I think he (the physicist friend of Marcus') switched momentarily to integral mode, where he felt that the first interval had three integers,...
... no no, nothing like that. i stayed in intervals the whole time. a = [2, 4] b = [3, 5] P(a = [2, 3]) = 0.5 // automatically true P(a = [3, 4]) = 0.5 //...
... I was just trying to be creative, and cute, in my psychothesis. Not to worry, you are absolutely right in that the left interval and right interval lie in...
... That makes me feel better. Especially since, when i first did them, it was in rather more of a hurry and rather less explicitly stated than the version...
... I've been known to rant about Penrose quite a bit--mostly his crackpot pet theory that quantum gravity is responsible for cognition in the human brain. ......
... What do you mean? It is obvious: 1. We do not know anything about quantum gravity. 2. We do not know anything about the origin of cognition. Alas, they...
... I've done some finger-math, and i reckon that for a decent 0.01 pixel accuracy - suitable for a printer, overkill for antialiasing - it'll be about 20...
As some of you may know, one of the original things that inspired me to create frink was one of those endlessly forwarded e-mails of interesting but dubious...
Impress your friends! Don't celebrate the new year embarrassingly early! You'll have an extra second to act aloof and superior to those not in-the-know. It...
I've finally finished implementing the two-argument version of arctan[x,y] in Frink to work with interval arithmetic. This is an interesting, subtle, and...
I am really impressed by the breadth and depth of Frink, but I don't see financial tools, other than currency converters. How about: stock symbol value? e.g., ...
... I have had a simple sample program that fetches stock values live: http://futureboy.us/fsp/colorize.fsp?fileName=stock.frink But it's not part of the...
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Alan, Frink has developed software to work on units. One of the expressed desires on the Frink webpage is to develop a version of the package that would work...
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I'm using nasmw version 0.98.39 compiled on Jan 16 2005 I've attached the file I'm building. Search for "nasm" and you'll see the results. The bytes are listed...
... I'll post my initial response to both of the lists you referenced in the original mail, as Frink users might be interested in how units are implemented in...
It's just about time for the annual November MIThenge phenomenon! This is the time that the sun align's with MIT's Infinite Corridor and shines all the way...
I'm experimenting with using pack200 compression for Frink. If you use Java Web Start to install and launch Frink, or run the Frink applet through the...
The latest release of Frink (2005-12-04) fixes some Java 1.1 compatibility problems, notably on the Sharp Zaurus. Evidently the field BigInteger.ONE wasn't...
hey all, I had a small suggestion for unit measurement: people, as in 2.5 kids per capita, 46 BBL oil per capita, etc. etc. Either that, or the larger...
... As a general case, you can, at any time, introduce any new sort of thing to be counted using the =!= operator. For example, in the data file ( see...
... Well, I for one would lobby for something like this to be included in the 'standard units' file.. Ultimately, you could tie this into census data the same...
... As with object-oriented class-based programming, perhaps it might make sense to enable an ultimate dimension of "object"? Everything is an "object", unless...
... It might be an undefined variable, too, that you're just waiting to fill in later. (Maybe containing a string, or something else?) This sort of thing is...
