Ps: first real program was to determine if a frog was sitting 8 feet
away
from a pond and he could jump half the distance to the pond with each jump, how many jumps would it take to reach the water? Any guesses?
The program's still running, right?
Actually it's a trick question because a frog cannot be infinitely small.
If we're measuring the distance from the front of the frog's feet to the pond, it doesn't matter how big the frog is. Yes, the jumps become imperceptible, but frogs aren't especially good at measuring half the distance, either.
So there.
-Jerry
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Lol Paul
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On Sep 4, 2017, at 3:37 AM, Jerry Wolper jwolper@swanzoco.com wrote:
Ps: first real program was to determine if a frog was sitting 8 feet
away
from a pond and he could jump half the distance to the pond with each jump, how many jumps would it take to reach the water? Any guesses?
The program's still running, right?
Actually it's a trick question because a frog cannot be infinitely small.
If we're measuring the distance from the front of the frog's feet to the pond, it doesn't matter how big the frog is. Yes, the jumps become imperceptible, but frogs aren't especially good at measuring half the distance, either.
So there.
-Jerry
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Getting back to the original topic, I have a version of Richard Russell's BBC Basic for Windows running on my Win10 PC. Being interpreted and possibly 16 bit, it's not the fastest but has many good features (including native matrix multiplication and a VDU command which sets the origin of a graphics window to the bottom left). Worth a look if you want to play with some of the older stuff. Just Google BBC Basic and you'll get loads of links.
Laurie
On 4 September 2017 at 12:34, Paul H. Tarver paul@tpcqpc.com wrote:
Lol Paul
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On Sep 4, 2017, at 3:37 AM, Jerry Wolper jwolper@swanzoco.com wrote:
Ps: first real program was to determine if a frog was sitting 8 feet
away
from a pond and he could jump half the distance to the pond with each jump, how many jumps would it take to reach the water? Any guesses?
The program's still running, right?
Actually it's a trick question because a frog cannot be infinitely
small.
If we're measuring the distance from the front of the frog's feet to the pond, it doesn't matter how big the frog is. Yes, the jumps become imperceptible, but frogs aren't especially good at measuring half the distance, either.
So there.
-Jerry
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