Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Keith Thompson Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: SAFEcode Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 11:35:07 -0700 Organization: None to speak of Lines: 47 Message-ID: <87pp73rkf8.fsf@kst-u.example.com> References: <726b3d86-0074-4f28-9968-c75a36870a15@googlegroups.com> <2a853a94-7471-48e8-ad4f-2d3e16c6421d@googlegroups.com> <4964f920-9e9b-44d1-a8c5-125462c8192e@googlegroups.com> <1f68d75f-0f30-4084-9aa3-c439c7667306@googlegroups.com> <78d03d4e-8eb2-4265-b734-0a6aee1a8b20@googlegroups.com> <3cc4cf1e-0a4f-49d0-be24-a07294d2f488@googlegroups.com> <87sic1sa3s.fsf@kst-u.example.com> <1f1874ce-edfe-4923-8d66-9bff31b56f0d@googlegroups.com> <87h9shrxzq.fsf@kst-u.example.com> <79e51590-587b-4fc3-8d7d-8c942be64d1b@googlegroups.com> <873840rrt7.fsf@kst-u.example.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="9be37d943435275679235b07c7947eef"; logging-data="14399"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/gtexccvhzgMEGOdmPmCAF" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:OLniOFH0LVpEoz5QaD9szRJ/P9I= sha1:U3UkdDFDrK6RXiDI4weJjOjWQf8= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:60172 Malcolm McLean writes: > On Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 4:55:44 PM UTC+1, Keith Thompson wrote: >> Malcolm McLean writes: >> > On Wednesday, April 15, 2015 at 8:29:57 PM UTC+1, Keith Thompson wrote: >> >> Malcolm McLean writes: >> >> You're saying that you can think of the function (which function?) in >> >> two entirely inconsistent ways. Using crude ASCII graphics (you may >> >> need to use a fixed-width font to view this), you first describe a >> >> function whose graph would look something like this (the + and | >> >> characters are meant to be vertically aligned): >> >> >> >> +------------- >> >> | >> >> ------------+ >> >> >> >> and then a function whose graph would look something like this: >> >> >> >> ----------\ /--------- >> >> \ / >> >> V >> >> (I cleaned up the alignment.) >> >> You say these are two ways to think of the same function. I say >> >> they're different functions. > > Graph 2 is the integral of graph 1, assuming graph 1 has been surrounded by zeros It's been a long time since I studied calculus, but I'm pretty sure that's nonsense. Graph 2 might be the derivative of the inverse of graph 1. Graphs 1 and 2 were my attempt to visualize the functions that you described upthread. [SNIP] Clearly trying to figure out what you actually mean is a waste of my time. -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc. "We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this." -- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"