So there I was, kickin' it over at slashdot.org, and suddenly, like a bright, flashing neon sign, I see through my ticalc.org slashbox that a new article is up. Immediately after my brain had absorbed this information, I jumped up, knocking over my chair in the process, and started celebrating. It was only after my third leap into the air that I remembered that this was for the 86, not the 89! What gives, Nick???

Anyway, I thought I would congratulate Nick on this juicy little program, and also take a bow to his paragonical programming prowess. If it weren't for Nick D., where would the TI community be? Seriously, Nick has contributed so much to our tightly knit community, and this caps it all off very nicely. To think that somebody would have the skill and knowledge to create such an awesome program boggles my puny mind.

What's next, artificially intelligent life-forms based upon the TI-86? TI-86's with the ability to scan in test problems and spit out the answer? One can only expect the best from Nick Disabato, and time can only tell what pulchritudinous invention will come from his bright and lucid mind.

Anybody planning ports to the 89?

Here's hoping,
--Mike

Actually (being the l33t BaSiC c0d3r that I am), I have already ported it... It's uploaded to ticalc awaiting inclusion in the archives.

-Erik Davidson

I am quite astonished by your skill; who would have thought that it was even possible to port such an advanced program in such a short time? Obviously, you did ... I bow to your brilliance.

I ported it to the 83+ and uploaded it. It should be up sometine soon.

Amazing. This just gets better every hour.

I would have also put an 85 version up, but Nick wanted to do that himself.

As Nick was the only one brilliant enough to create the original, I'm sure he is also the most qualified to port it.

Until somebody ports to the 73... then we'll all hate ourselves for ever buying our 89s if 73s can be magically converted as well. Afterwards, mobs will form inside local staples stores from all those people who can't afford an 89 and are going after the previously worthless 73s along with all those 89 users who will kill to stay on top. No more will TI say "this worthless piece of junk can make pie graphs" ... they'll say "this worthless piece of junk can magically be converted into an 89 using a wonderful program that we're not allowed to discuss, as we don't officially support the TI community unless they pay for the development kit."

>Until somebody ports to the 73
Do not even mention such madness!!!!
>Afterwards, mobs will form inside local staples stores from all those people who can't afford an 89 and are going after the previously worthless 73s along with all those 89 users who will kill to stay on top.
They will also form at local Best Buy, OfficeMax, and Office Depot stores.
>No more will TI say "this worthless piece of junk can make pie graphs" ... they'll say "this worthless piece of junk can magically be converted into an 89 using a wonderful program that we're not allowed to discuss, as we don't officially support the TI community unless they pay for the development kit."
Couldn't have put it better myself:)

BURN ALL TI73S !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Random Numbar Generator can help a whole lot in doing this ...)

no-no-no-no-no-no-no-no-no-no-no...
we should PYROLYZE all 73's. But stay away from my 81!

Can I put up a port for the 81 or 80? I don't if Ti-Calc's servers can handle such a mass of programming skill!

Go ahead. The server *should* be able to handle such advanced programs. Its survived slashdotting, hasn't it?

This sentence no verb.

Unfortunately, there is always the risk that the program will decide to open a black hole. That's something ticalc.org may not survive.

If it opens a micro-black hole, the event horizon is infinitessimal, so unless it opens it inside a component of the server, it should work fine.

But remeber the word 'Random' in Random Numbar Generator; it means that you can't predict how large the black whole will be in advance.

..nor can we know in which part of the server the singularity will appear.

The random numbar generator can be modified to meet these parameters.

another thing to notice:

Posted by Nick on 19 July 2000, 19:19 GMT

:D

--BlueCalx

shame july isnt the 19th month of the year...

but is 19/2 -1
he !

<snip>but is 19/2 -1</snip>
Wow, head math...
19/2=9.5
9.5-1=8.5
8.5=7

I did it so quick that I though I was doing 16/2 -1
(19 and 16 are very similar... knowing that sometimes I loose the sence of direction!)
here it goes again
19/2 -2.5
HE !

With Random Numbar Generator, all numbers can be equal

8.5=7 !! But we must demonstrate it, using the following Idea:

a + b = c
(4a-3a)+(4b-3b)=(4c-3c)
4a + 4b - 4c = 3a + 3b - 3c
4(a+b-c) = 3(a+b-c)
4 = 3

Yeah ! 4 = 3 !
HE !

Wow... Simple Division By Zero (Not Once, But Tiwce) can solve anything!!!

It certainly can. This just makes me wonder why this sophisticated mathematical technique isn't used more widely.

Just a slight numerical overflow is why.

Instead, try: (expression)/(1.0x10^±[infinity])
Its technically not a divide by zero, similar to the 1/[infinity] problem WITHOUT

please delete above comment

why?!?!? I think it is a wonderful comment ...

Just a slight numerical overflow is why.

Instead, try: (expression)/(1.0x10^±[infinity])
Its technically not a divide by zero, similar to the 1/[infinity] problem WITHOUT limits.

NO!!!
If A=2, B=3, C=5
2(4-2)+2(6-3)=2(10-5)
2(2+3-5)=1(2+3-5)
2(0)-1(0) <-+Divide Zero Out
2=1 <-+

OOPS! That Makes No Sense! It Works On This Paper In Fornt Of Me, Bot Not There... Please Note: The Above Is Incorrect!

Actually it makes perfect sense. However, there is a difference between dividing zero out and dividing by zero. Dividing by zero yields both an infinite result and and undefined result. The former result often causes memory overflows. It would be interesting to run that on a Cray 2;)

It yields negative infinity also.

It results in infinity, negative infinity, and everything in between simultaneously. That's why it would be interesting to run on a supercomputer or twenty.

For even more math fun, try to computer

fPart(tan(tan-1 1))

on your TI-82. Note here that "tan-1" means to use the inverse tangent function.

(Note: this brilliant discovery is actually not be me, but supplied to me from the TCPA)

Today is 19/19/1999
<nobrain>Subtract 12 from the month, add one to the year</nobrain>

EXACTLY, SIR!
Man, you've posted the two coolest comments so far today. I ph34r you.

--BlueCalx

(that's serious btw *grin*)

What about yesterday and today?

Or better yet, today !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!