Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!fu-berlin.de!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool1.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Message-ID: <2532184.nc9jZIu4Zn@PointedEars.de> From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn Reply-To: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn Organization: PointedEars Software (PES) Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 11:06:35 +0200 User-Agent: KNode/4.4.11 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Face: %i>XG-yXR'\"2P/C_aO%~;2o~?g0pPKmbOw^=NT`tprDEf++D.m7"}HW6.#=U:?2GGctkL,f89@H46O$ASoW&?s}.k+&. <2760364.jIkiNM8doB@PointedEars.de> <2066056.VtcmPVeGr1@PointedEars.de> <1615644.IcWXoroVV2@PointedEars.de> Followup-To: comp.lang.javascript MIME-Version: 1.0 Lines: 44 NNTP-Posting-Date: 23 Aug 2012 11:06:37 CEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 543c828c.newsspool3.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=GTADZm8W4\YJNLT<8F<]0D<`I:eX69NQPf0Jl[2aEXcUnDG X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.javascript:15510 Dr J R Stockton wrote: > Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn posted: >> IOW, you are not willing to stand by your mistakes, which demonstrates a >> serious lack of character. > > Not correcting one's errors is worse. Two relatively minor ones on your > Web site are "radiant" (maybe 255 times) and "gradiant" (maybe 256 > times). An inadequate knowledge of English is excusable in some > foreigners, and expected in others; but one who chooses to write on a > technical matter should at least get the technical bit right - though in > this case the long-standing error is so obvious that anyone who is > misled by it deserves to be - perhaps it is an "Angkor Apeiron". ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Thanks, fixed (it was not there as a means for detecting plagiarism; it is simply called "Radiant", and I had also thought "Gradiant", in German, respectively). I have also fixed the gradian (gon) support in the custom trigonometrical functions that use the corresponding "constant" (the angle for a full circle is 400 gon, not 300 gon as I thought). However, there was only one occurrence for each named mistake in the source code (comments); the number of occurrences on the Web site is merely a result of them being dragged along in the SVN repository through the years, which is published with all revisions at . Since I am not using math.js (this part now split into math/float.js) that often, those scripts have not undergone the same degree of review and testing as other scripts (yet); they are not production quality (yet). I can only hope that your comment was motivated by an appreciation of what I am trying to do there, by someone interested in mathematics, and not made merely for the sake of pointing out publicly that I too make mistakes. If the former applies, I would appreciate corrections of further mistakes in those scripts and further suggestions as to how they could be improved, via any communication channels that you see fit. PointedEars -- Sometimes, what you learn is wrong. If those wrong ideas are close to the root of the knowledge tree you build on a particular subject, pruning the bad branches can sometimes cause the whole tree to collapse. -- Mike Duffy in cljs,