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Originally posted by BrilloPad View PostThat boy go raaaaaaa
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Originally posted by Cliphead View PostNearly pissed, time to stop posting
That boy go raaaaaaa
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostSo he thought for a moment, and implemented the Newton-Raphson iterative algorithm, in Z80, off the top of his head
It wasn't fast enough (took about ten frames or something), so I spent an hour or two digging through old copies of Personal Computer World that evening, and found what I vaguely remembered reading some years before - a super-fast Z80 integer square root function.
It's good enough for plotting curves on a monitor. Or was, for whatever it was I was writing at the time in 1984. (Which ran on a terminal on a DMS HiNet network.)My all-time favourite Dilbert cartoon, this is: BTW, a Dumpster is a brand of skip, I think.Comment
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Originally posted by RichardCranium View PostI was a very happy bunny when I twigged that instead of calculating the sine and cosine of angles, I could have a simple lookup array [0..90] and use that with integer degree angles.
It's good enough for plotting curves on a monitor. Or was, for whatever it was I was writing at the time in 1984. (Which ran on a terminal on a DMS HiNet network.)
I was only 14 then...
Hi everyoneEeyore was very glad to be able to stop thinking for a little, in order to say "How do you do" in a gloomy manner to Pooh.
"And how are you?" said Winnie-the-Pooh.
Eeyore shook his head from side to side. "Not very how," he said. "I don't seem to felt at all how for a long time."Comment
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Originally posted by kali View PostOMG I thought I was old!!!!!
I was only 14 then...
Hi everyoneThe squint, the cocked eye and clenched first are the cornerstones of all Merseyside communication from birth to graveComment
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Originally posted by EqualOpportunities View PostYou are old... I was 5
..and, cool I got a century without realisingEeyore was very glad to be able to stop thinking for a little, in order to say "How do you do" in a gloomy manner to Pooh.
"And how are you?" said Winnie-the-Pooh.
Eeyore shook his head from side to side. "Not very how," he said. "I don't seem to felt at all how for a long time."Comment
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Originally posted by TheBigYinJames View PostYes, with Xeno being orrible to me on another thread, I am learning to appreciate the oasis of calm that tpd is.
Grinny grin.My all-time favourite Dilbert cartoon, this is: BTW, a Dumpster is a brand of skip, I think.Comment
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