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Cor. It's a bit quiet in here innit..?

Started by JonB, 15:13, 28 April 20

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tjohnson

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Maybe everyone is busy pounding the keyboard of their CPC PCW while on furlough from work, too busy to come on the site?

Bryce

Quote from: JonB on 15:13, 28 April 20
..discuss!

Your last post before this one was on the 20th of February, a whole 68 days ago. During that time I made 235 posts and several thousand posts were made in total... So (A) Is it really all that quiet? and (B) If so, who exactly is contributing to the quietness?

Bryce.

JonB

Argh! Hoisted by my own petard!

???

I'm referring to the PCW scene, not the general CPC forums, but hey ho.. you got me there Bryce.  :D


GUNHED

Big Bryceother is watching you.  :o
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Sykobee (Briggsy)

TBH I haven't had time (TBRH or inclination) to do much with my NC200... :/

Bryce

Quote from: JonB on 17:39, 28 April 20
Argh! Hoisted by my own petard!

???

I'm referring to the PCW scene, not the general CPC forums, but hey ho.. you got me there Bryce.  :D

For those who never understood the phrase "pwnd"... That was it :D

Regarding the PCW scene, I don't really belong to it, so I can't comment on the level of activity.


Bryce.

tjohnson

Would it be bad to say my pcw8512 is used as a door stop at they moment?

Bryce

Quote from: tjohnson on 20:29, 28 April 20
Would it be bad to say my pcw8512 is used as a door stop at they moment?

Now you have two reasons why you have to stay at home. I'm sure there are some PCW fanatics out there that would beat you up for that comment! :D

Bryce.

GUNHED

Quote from: tjohnson on 20:29, 28 April 20
Would it be bad to say my pcw8512 is used as a door stop at they moment?
Well, that's probably the most beautiful door in the country.
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TynH

Currently fighting a persistent infection and/or allergic reaction so unfortunately haven't been able to spend a lot of time at my desk. Was however going to write a rather lengthy post about the PCW and what to "use" it for online.

1024MAK

Quote from: tjohnson on 20:29, 28 April 20
Would it be bad to say my pcw8512 is used as a door stop at they moment?
Oi! Displacing a poor old ZX81 out of a job and making him redundant :o
As if the world does not already have enough troubles...  :(

:laugh:

Mark
Looking forward to summer in Somerset :-)

mr.freeze

I'm experimenting with a P-code compiler to Z80 for CP/M for the past week. I've only implemented 35 instructions out of +/- 150. It compiles a Pascal program approximating Pi (spigot algorithm of Rabinovitz and Wagon) running at the same speed as the same program compiled with Turbo Pascal 3. 60s for 100 digits. With Euclidian division routines (16/16 and 16/8).
When I replace those routines by a naïve division routine by successive substractions it computes Pi in 50s for 100 digits ! The quotient never exceeding 18 must be the explanation of this 20% boost.

TynH

Pi is exactly three!

that should speed things up even more.  ;D

Bryce

Quote from: TynH on 18:41, 03 May 20
Pi is exactly three!

that should speed things up even more.  ;D

I think you'll find that that's an extreme rounding off of Pi. You need at least 9 digits after the decimal point to be even slightly accurate.

Bryce.

mr.freeze

I think he was joking :-) You must be a robot :-)

Bryce

Quote from: mr.freeze on 19:08, 03 May 20
I think he was joking :-) You must be a robot :-)

Doh! Up to now I've passed the Turing test with flying colours, only to be outed by you!!!

Bryce.

remax

Quote from: TynH on 18:41, 03 May 20
Pi is exactly three!

that should speed things up even more.  ;D


Pi is exactly 3.2 and that's by law !


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill
Brain Radioactivity

Bryce

Goodwins explanation is good enough for me. Anyone out there need a spare calculator button? I have a several pi buttons I no longer need.

Bryce.

TynH

#19

Making room for τ instead? Great, because Tau is awesome!
https://tauday.com/tau-manifesto


Shock, horror: π is wrong!

http://www.math.utah.edu/%7Epalais/pi.pdf

Bryce

Tau is of course a nicer number, it's just missing the 1 in the middle 6(1)28 :)

Bryce.

remax

Quote from: Bryce on 12:01, 04 May 20
Tau is of course a nicer number, it's just missing the 1 in the middle 6(1)28 :)

Bryce.


It has an infinity of 6128 in it though (and even a complete dump of its rom).
Brain Radioactivity

GUNHED

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I think you'll find that that's an extreme rounding off of Pi. You need at least 9 digits after the decimal point to be even slightly accurate.
I love if somebody tells "slightly accurate" - that's like a bit pregnant.  :laugh:
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Bryce

Quote from: GUNHED on 20:35, 04 May 20
I love if somebody tells "slightly accurate" - that's like a bit pregnant.  :laugh:

Yes, I even laugh myself when I catch myself saying that. Ok, it wasn't slightly accurate, it was almost correct! :D

Bryce.

GUNHED

"almost correct" is what makes biological life superior to computer life. One could call it also automatic error correcting fuzzy logic.  ;) :)
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