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Happy 50th B'day to Herr Hentrich!
« on: February 10, 2017, 06:48:47 am »
Happy B'day! I am posting the greeting a little bit in advance -just in case if tomorrow the internet is down..
La Tristesse Durera Toujours                                  (The Sadness Lasts Forever ...)
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Re: Happy 50th B'day to Herr Hentrich!
« Reply #1 on: February 10, 2017, 07:47:13 pm »
Things They Will Never Tell YouArthur Schopenhauer has been the most radical and defiant of all troublemakers.

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Re: Happy 50th B'day to Herr Hentrich!
« Reply #2 on: February 11, 2017, 09:01:02 am »
An email from The Nightmare Network:

Even after a person
is gone from this world,
people often tend
to remember birthdays.

They say: today is
the birthday of someone
who would have been
so many years old.

So just in case you're
not around next year:
happy birthday.

"Happy Birthday" by Thomas Ligotti
(From DEATH POEMS)

PS:  I am feeling irrirable this morning, self-absorbed in my own private obsession with understanding ... I am a slow thinker.  I can't seem to decide on what to call this message board.

Any ideas?  Maybe I'll just change it frequently ...

The theme, Irritable Curmudgeons, might add a touch of humor to our perpetually agitated state.

If we can just find our predicament absurd and ridiculous, we might be saved from self-hatred.

I guess those of us who cherish time alone lost in studies are quite fortunate after all.
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Things They Will Never Tell YouArthur Schopenhauer has been the most radical and defiant of all troublemakers.

Gorticide @ Nothing that is so, is so DOT edu

~ Tabak und Kaffee Süchtigen ~

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Belated Happy 51th B'day to Herr Hentrich!
« Reply #3 on: February 12, 2018, 10:17:53 pm »
Herr Hentrich,
A very happy birthday(or one with as little suffering as possible).I am sorry that I could not wish you on your birthday.
I am trapped in circumstances quite similar to that depicted in the Trial.
I thank you for all your help-above all for Schopenhauer.
Keep well and I will write again soon.
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Happy Birthday Jesus
« Reply #4 on: February 15, 2018, 11:21:59 am »
A belated thank you.

Do not take offense as I remind you that such silly images as the birthday card rob us of the precious little space we have for uploading painstakingly written code or other text-based files.

I am confident that you respect straight-forward honest communication over the ridiculous formalities of "politeness".

I have been deeply engrossed in perfecting the SRA code.  I have even managed to have it take decimal fractions with zero as the integer part.  That alone was quite a feat which required counting leading zeros after the radix, which, in turn, required converting numbers into strings and then very carefully parsing input, with a complicated rats' nest of if-else processing.

Currently I am pecking away at reducing the confusion by turning as many repetitive sequences of events into functions (procedures).

I am experiencing a peculiar "high" when acheiving a result I first thought would be impossible, but the high quickly fades and is replaced by the demands of the perfectionistic "will" which is never satisfied and will destroy something that worked simply to force me to implement something better. 

My goal is to make something that endures, surviving over time, so I am ridding the code of anything that might depend on anything but the most universal symbols.  Console based with no gorty bells and whistles.  A graphical user interface is not essential to the transmission of this already forgotten art.  If the end user does not know enough to adjust the properties of their console/terminal for easier reading, well, fuuck 'em.

Organizing the arithemtic procedures in the algorithm in a way that resembles the paper and pencil method is proving to be the most challenging aspect of this endeavor; but I want to tie everything together at the end of the "display" by writing the results (as a summary) in it's true form without the "training wheels" of the "thing that looks like but is not long division".

I will eliminate the square root symbol in all versions since not all systems will have unicode.  Well, I may keep one Arch Linux version which I can count on to display it, but all generic versions will be unicode-free, so as to be compiled with GNU g++ on Linux, Windows, Mac, or whatever ... Raspbian of Raspberry Pi? 

I am sending this into an uncertain future and it is already archaic.   I am quite prepared to appear like like a semi-retarded ape to the future incarnations of our wretched species.  The hidden joke is that the all-too-sophisticated future sycophants, who will most likely be quite impressed with the mental assistance provided by their electro-mechanical devices, may risk suffering a brain aneurysm upon thinking too long about the unavoidable drudgery of to arithmetic computations involved in each and every step of the Old School Square Root Algorithm, which is quite exact, and not an approximating process such as used by the Babylonians and the renowned Isaac Newton.

If they do not suffer the brain aneurysm, then they may reap the reward of mastering a lost art in the midst of populations of people who find such arithmetic below the dignity of sentient lifeforms.

As for the excrutiating teduim and exactness required at even at the most basic level of coding for the displaying of the results (in human form), I have to make a very barbaric attempt at creating something that looks like the square root symbol, with room for results above and below the vinculum:

    /-----------------
  \/   

Actually, this technicality will add a comical feauture.  Maybe it will help reduce the stress and apprehension the end-user may associate with the dreaded arithemetic which will be forthcoming.

 ;D

PS:  I have decided not to post the code until it is only "slightly imperfect".

Nothing is ever perfect, but I am going to give this project the time it deserves.

The 1000+ lines of code deserve to be presented in a coherent manner for each shadowy number the end-user inputs.

As I said, it took much mental effort to alter the code in such a way that it can handle "the square root of 1/16"; that is, the square root of 0.0625

I am pleased to report that it shows each step, digit by digit, and the beautiful 0.25 is displayed, which is, of course, 1/4.

When making such changes, I had to prevent numbers greater than 1 from entering that part of the code else a Segmentation Fault (core dump) would occur as the "leading zeros after the radix" could be an arbirtry and large number causing the while loop in the special case to add so many zeros to the front of the deque as to crash the computer.   There are parts of my code that are like walking in that strange closet in one of the books you had suggested I read, the closet that was turning into a long hallway and then down deeper into some sinister hidden world. 

Meanwhile ... behind the facade of an innocent looking bookstore ...


« Last Edit: February 16, 2018, 10:41:29 am by Non Serviam »
Things They Will Never Tell YouArthur Schopenhauer has been the most radical and defiant of all troublemakers.

Gorticide @ Nothing that is so, is so DOT edu

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Re: Happy 50th B'day to Herr Hentrich!
« Reply #5 on: February 15, 2018, 08:19:59 pm »
I just woke up.I had been dreaming of studying maths.
La Tristesse Durera Toujours                                  (The Sadness Lasts Forever ...)
-van Gogh.