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| From | James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: casting constant value from float to unsigned short - compiler bugs? |
| Date | 2012-01-06 15:10 -0500 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <4F07553B.8040803@verizon.net> (permalink) |
| References | (2 earlier) <jbbjsk$ja4$2@speranza.aioe.org> <f_ydnS3uiPzU7UTTnZ2dnUVZ8lqdnZ2d@giganews.com> <rubrum-5D58A3.12315703012012@news.albasani.net> <87ty4cfro5.fsf@blp.benpfaff.org> <rubrum-6AA2D0.11382006012012@news.albasani.net> |
On 01/06/2012 02:38 PM, Michael Press wrote: > In article <87ty4cfro5.fsf@blp.benpfaff.org>, > blp@cs.stanford.edu (Ben Pfaff) wrote: > >> Michael Press <rubrum@pacbell.net> writes: >> If http://mathworld.wolfram.com/FractionalPart.html is to be >> believed, there is no single standard mathematical definition of >> "fractional part", but the one used in the C standard matches one >> common definition. > > Mathematica is not mathematics. C is not mathematics. This isn't a question about whether Mathematica "is mathematics"; no one claimed that it was. It isn't even a question of whether Mathematica's web site is authoritative on such issues - no one made that claim, either. The Mathematica web site claims that there are multiple definitions in use by mathematicians. The key question is whether or not that claim is correct, an issue that is completely independent of who made that claim. The Mathematica web site provides a citation in support of this claim. Any of the following would be relevant counter-arguments: 1. Present evidence indicating that the cited text does not exist. 2. Present evidence indicating that the cited text does not, in fact, say what Mathematica's web site says that it says. 3. Argue that the authors of the cited text cited are insufficiently influential for their use of a different definition to support a claim that it is "one common definition". This is necessarily a judgement call, but it can at least reasonably be argued about. Personally, I'd consider 3 to be the most reasonable target to attack - I certainly have no idea who those authors were, which places a (very high) upper limit on how influential they could be. But you didn't choose any of those approaches. Instead you argue irrelevancies, like "Mathematica is not mathematics".
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Re: casting constant value from float to unsigned short - compiler bugs? jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-12-02 10:34 +0100
Re: casting constant value from float to unsigned short - compiler bugs? Vincenzo Mercuri <vincenzo.mercuri@hotmail.it> - 2011-12-02 18:10 +0100
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Re: casting constant value from float to unsigned short - compiler bugs? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-12-03 11:51 -0500
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Re: casting constant value from float to unsigned short - compiler bugs? Michael Press <rubrum@pacbell.net> - 2012-01-03 12:31 -0800
Re: casting constant value from float to unsigned short - compiler bugs? blp@cs.stanford.edu (Ben Pfaff) - 2012-01-03 12:38 -0800
Re: casting constant value from float to unsigned short - compiler bugs? Michael Press <rubrum@pacbell.net> - 2012-01-06 11:38 -0800
Re: casting constant value from float to unsigned short - compiler bugs? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-01-06 15:10 -0500
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Re: casting constant value from float to unsigned short - compiler bugs? Michael Press <rubrum@pacbell.net> - 2012-01-05 16:14 -0800
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Re: casting constant value from float to unsigned short - compiler bugs? Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2012-01-26 09:14 -0800
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Re: casting constant value from float to unsigned short - compiler bugs? "io_x" <a@b.c.invalid> - 2012-01-05 16:32 +0100
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Re: casting constant value from float to unsigned short - compiler bugs? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-01-05 11:15 +0000
Re: casting constant value from float to unsigned short - compiler bugs? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-01-05 07:27 -0500
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