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?
-Jerry
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On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 4:19 AM, Jerry Wolper jwolper@swanzoco.com wrote:
The program's still running, right?
+1
But it's getting really, really, really close!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno%27s_paradoxes#Dichotomy_paradox
Unless it crashes as a result of numeric underflow...
Laurie
On 3 September 2017 at 11:55, Ted Roche tedroche@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 4:19 AM, Jerry Wolper jwolper@swanzoco.com wrote:
The program's still running, right?
+1
But it's getting really, really, really close!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno%27s_paradoxes#Dichotomy_paradox
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On 3 September 2017 at 09:19, 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?
Give it a chance! It's only a 0.89 MHz 6809.
A Dragon 32 was also my first computer. It was a British Coco clone. The 6809 was a pretty good CPU, much nicer than the 6502 or Z80 (from a programmers point of view anyway).
Actually it's a trick question because a frog cannot be infinitely small. The teacher explained it by having us fold any sized piece of paper exactly in half as many times as we could. The theoretical limit was 8 folds but I could never exceed 7 folds. I think some tv show tested this with a giant piece of paper and they got 8 or 9 folds but it was a real learning opportunity and it taught a lot of young kids the difference between theory and reality.
Paul
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On Sep 3, 2017, at 4:19 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?
-Jerry
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