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Comment Re:Yes (Score 1) 1067

In div by zero, why is the zero considered an error? It may be a valid measurement.

I've looked at a bunch of useful formulas, and can't find a single one where replacing ANY variable value with 0 would be wrong.

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/...
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/...
https://quizlet.com/3796199/ph...

I haven't reviewed _all_ formulas, of course, and there might be places in code where disasters (or nonsensical results) might happen. Can anyone give me just one, please?

Comment No Noel Coward In Bangladesh? (Score 1) 155

"Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday son."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...

I thought everyone knew that? Kipling certainly did. (I think, but am not sure, that Coward stole it from him.)

https://uk.answers.yahoo.com/q...

So the solutions might include (1) Plant more trees, and (2) Bring Broadway to Bangladesh.

Comment Will the Cannae Drive Be Aboard? (Score 1) 110

It would be a wonderful opportunity to send one up, to see if it actually generates thrust without fuel (in a relatively gravity free environment where it would be most useful).

http://www.gizmag.com/cannae-r...

Although that's a lot of trouble to test the Cannae Drive: just suspend it from a rope, throw the current to it, and see if it deflects from the vertical. (A simple antigravity drive test suggested half a century ago by some well-known science fiction writer.)

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