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Jeremy Howard: # Uri Guttman wrote: # > >>>>> "BS" == Benjamin Stuhl <tiriath@yahoo.com> writes: # > # > >> Can anyone think of things I've forgotten? It's been a # while since # > >> I've done numeric work. # > # > BS> ln, asinh, acosh, atanh2? # > # > dan mentioned log (base anything) but i don't recall ln. # and definitely # > the arc hyberbolics are in after i pointed them out. dunno # about atanh2. # > # We only really need ln(). Then [log(y) base x] is simply # [ln(y)/ln(x)]. # There's no need to have separate functions for different bases. "OISC: You've heard of RISC, Reduced Instruction Set Computers? Well, here is the concept taken to its logical extreme -- an emulator for a computer with just one (1) instruction (Subtract and Branch if Negative)! Sample programs in the OISC machine language are included. We now have available have a revised and expanded version of oisc called OIC. In the future, this may replace OISC." from http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/retro/ :^) --Brent Dax brentdax@cpan.org "...and if the answers are inadequate, the pumpqueen will be overthrown in a bloody coup by programmers flinging dead Java programs over the walls with a trebuchet."Thread Previous | Thread Next