what do you get with 1 divide by 998001, interesting results
Everything You Need To Know
eyn2k at outlook.com
Thu Aug 21 03:40:08 EDT 2014
On Thursday, 21 August 2014 16:55:44 UTC+9:30, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 8/20/2014 11:36 AM, Everything You Need To Know wrote:
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> > Neat little exercise, surprisingly cool results!
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> > less than 3 minutes!
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> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlDjl5JK0eU&feature=youtu.be
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> Dear EYNToK (Adam Nowak?, the name on the video?): I am both a long-term
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> participant in this group and currently one of the behind-the-scenes
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> moderators. Here are the mistakes you made.
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> 0. You posted from Google Groups.
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> 0a. GG is the source of at least half the spam targeted at python-list,
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> including the stuff that gets caught and discarded by me or another
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> moderator. Google gives the appearance of being indifferent to being
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> spam source #1. Or maybe they see it as a mark of success somehow.
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> 0b. By default, GG does not follow normal and reasonable protocols.
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> Google is obviously indifferent to that. At one time in the past, Google
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> would have been cut off from usenet groups for GG's behavior. Now Google
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> is too big and powerful and hence arrogant.
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> 0c. Some posters, when requested, change the defaults as requested and
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> instructed. Some do not, thereby asking to be ignored.
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> 1. A pseudonym, but not just a pseudonym, but one that could be
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> interpreted as intentionally obnoxious and 'in our faces', such as used
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> by trolls. I realize that as a newcomer, you don't know the history,
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> but it affects people who have been around awhile.
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> 2. Slightly deceptive subject line, to your detriment. The video is
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> about simulating indefinite precision long division with python. This is
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> a quite legitimate beginner exercise. The 1/998001 example is just an
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> illustration of the value of being able to get more than 18 decimal digits.
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> 3. The form of your post! It screams 'I am spam!' Judgment in 3 seconds!
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> In sum, if this post had been presented to me by the spam filter for
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> action, and I had acted without viewing the video, especially late at
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> night when tired, I might have deleted it.
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> Having watched the video, I now know that would have been a mistake. As
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> Steven said, properly formatted occasional announcements of free
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> python-related resources are on-topic. (If we got multiple such
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> announcements every day, we might change the rules.) I agree with the
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> rest of his excellent post.
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> --
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> Terry Jan Reedy
Well said
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