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: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 17:14:36 -0800
On 1/10/01 5:11 PM, John W Baxter <email@hidden> wrote
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If one repeatedly rounds up exact .5 values, one introduces a bias. (If
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one divides by 2 again, one does the same thing right away half the time.)
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IEEE was trying to specify rounding as CORRECTLY taught in those schools
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which did so (such as mine <pre "new math" although one would actually
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expect "new math" to get it right, since it was intended to give a sound
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grounding in math>).
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To the kids: the particular "new math" I'm referring too became all the
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rage sometime in the 1960s during the general dumbing down of all US
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education.
Actually, "new math" started in the late 40s; I was exposed to it in the
third grade, in 1950. By the late 50's, though, I was being taught set
theory, introduction to probability theory, Boolean algebra and symbolic
logic, and first-semester calculus in high school.
Oh, when I was at the USMAPS (United States Army Military Academy Prep
School) in 1963, they taught "round towards the nearest even number) in
the math classes.
--Michelle
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