Re: Highlights of AppleScript 1.5.5 in Mac OS 9.1
Re: Highlights of AppleScript 1.5.5 in Mac OS 9.1
- Subject: Re: Highlights of AppleScript 1.5.5 in Mac OS 9.1
- From: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 17:11:16 -0800
At 10:52 -0500 1/10/01, Arthur J Knapp wrote:
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Wow, these are great. I wish I could get a handle on exactly what
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the IEEE standard is trying to accomplish, (I'm pretty thick when
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it comes to math). :)
If one repeatedly rounds up exact .5 values, one introduces a bias. (If
one divides by 2 again, one does the same thing right away half the time.)
IEEE was trying to specify rounding as CORRECTLY taught in those schools
which did so (such as mine <pre "new math" although one would actually
expect "new math" to get it right, since it was intended to give a sound
grounding in math>).
To the kids: the particular "new math" I'm referring too became all the
rage sometime in the 1960s during the general dumbing down of all US
education.
(That remark should get me into lots of trouble.)
--John the Curmudgeon
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John Baxter email@hidden Port Ludlow, WA, USA