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I just assumed that "computing" was a recent phenomenon, and that we always used to "calculate". So I'm consulting some literature from the 1880's and they're "computing" here and there.
So, I compared definitions and "calculating" indicates simplicity whereas "computing" indicates complexity.
So, don't calculate when you should be computing.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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But maybe some things which can be calculated can't be computed.
"Computability" doesn't seem to apply to calculating women.
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I calculate I'll be compute'n for the end of the day!
The most expensive tool is a cheap tool. Gareth Branwyn
JaxCoder.com
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For a long time a "computer" was a person who computed. Before about 1960, if you worked for an insurance company for example, working out actuarial tables and the like, your job description might be "computer".
Computer (occupation) - Wikipedia
Keep Calm and Carry On
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Hmm, yes, but I would expect such a man to be a computor, his couterpart being a computrix.
A computer would be an inanimate object.
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Might be your expectation, but it doesn't match reality. See this from NASA or read the book/watch the movie "Hidden Figures."
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Then of course there are comptometers (from 1862) and their operators, comptometrists...
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But if I am a computer I must be able to assume I will be turned on daily. I'm not.
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Gerry Schmitz wrote: So, I compared definitions and "calculating" indicates simplicity whereas "computing" indicates complexity. Calculating is human math.
It is computing if you use a PC for that math. In the 1880's the term is correct; we even had humans computing in that era.
Just posting, because you sound confused on the idea.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Your "explanations" are always a delight.
Is crypto still "money"?
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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There's a reason why it's not called the Association of Calculating Machinery.
/ravi
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computer computes calculations
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If my calculations are correct, you've correctly computed these calculations.
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IMHO computing may be distinguished by the inclusion of logical operations, which don't generally appear in calculations.
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Can I bring in mentat and mentation?
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Well, my nefarious plan has failed. My cascading dropdownlist controls cascade/interact correctly (thank you ajax), but when i click the submit button, all hell breaks loose. I have to do it a different way... That means I have to scrap all of the associated existing code and start over. FML...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Well, that wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. The javascript needed five lines changed, but the controller needed five new methods, and two needed to be changed. Finally, the view code needed a changed foreach oft he five drop downs. Now I can relax...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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#realJSOP wrote: Now I can relax...
And on the Seventy-umpteen day, you rested.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Sometimes I'm really glad to be a dinosaur stuck with WebForms (and roll-your-own Ajax...)
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I think MVC is an improvement over Web Forms, especially when the web forms app you're working on is more than decade old with no hope of an approved rewrite...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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You sound like someone told you to save before an end-edit on a DataGridView
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I am writing an article about using pointers in order to demystify them.
The issue is they're instinct to me. They're not confusing, and it has been so long since they were that I don't know what people struggle with anymore. I mean, I've got plenty of things I've already covered - but they're the more obvious things, and I also don't know if I've covered every base.
So especially for those of you that haven't used them much, or are actively repelled by them, what about them (aside from the obvious dangers of directly manipulating memory) makes them awful for you?
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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When I started with C more than 25 years ago, I was scared of double pointers; that scare still exists. So, if you can elucidate them with examples, that would be useful.
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Good call. They are a little more difficult in concept because they are meta - an indirection of an indirection, but I think I can clarify them. Thanks!
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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