On Sun, Jul 25, 1999 at 07:38:02AM -0700, Scott Dattalo wrote: > On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Dave Bell wrote: > > > Bob Drzyzgula wrote: > > > > >I was fooling around with this today (avoiding fixing > > >the oven, I'm sure I'll have to pay for that soon), > > >and I found an interesting twist on this series. > > > > ... all of which amounts to multiplying the Numerator (N) by the binary > > expansion of 1/the Denominator (1/D). Note that the binary digits of 1/3 > > are a repeating fraction, 0.01010101......, and that the positions with > > same expansion of any fraction, and do likewise. In Myle's original case, > > 1/7 = 0.0010010010...... > > Bingo! Yet another forest/tree discrimination problem for me, I think. Seven years of college mathematics just seems like a liability sometimes. :-) On the plus side, I did finally figure out what was wrong with the oven -- contacts melted in the thermal switch when the bake unit failed and arced all over the eggplant. I must say though, the hassle was worth not having to eat the eggplant... > .... (Division by a constant would still be handled more efficiently > using these specialized algorithms. However, finding the arcsine of a > 32-bit floating point number, well... Who'd want to do that on a pic? :) Probably some Linux freak... :-) --Bob -- ============================================================ Bob Drzyzgula It's not a problem bob@drzyzgula.org until something bad happens ============================================================