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That difference math thing is pretty sweet! How come I didn't learn that in my umpteen math classes? I feel cheated!
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Wow. I haven't seen anything that cool made out of legos since the last time I saw the picture of the fullscale lego nuclear bomb model of the "little boy".
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Wow, that is truly amazing. I am impressed. I wonder, though : How does this work for non-integer values of the polynomial argument? I was under the impression that Babbage's engine would be able to handle such things also. And units are rather large steps if you're going for interpolation.
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quote:How does this work for non-integer values of the polynomial argument? I was under the impression that Babbage's engine would be able to handle such things also. And units are rather large steps if you're going for interpolation.
It works to 3 or 4 digits. I don't see any reason the lowest order digit has to be the unit digit. It could easily be non-integer values - tenths, hundredths, and thousandths, for instance.
With only 3 or 4 digits it's not that practical, but it is cool.
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Incidentally, is there any particular reason you stopped posting in the 'Speaking of intelligent design' thread? I thought we were having an extremely interesting discussion.
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quote:Incidentally, is there any particular reason you stopped posting in the 'Speaking of intelligent design' thread? I thought we were having an extremely interesting discussion.
I haven't had time to formulate my thoughts on that subject. Right now I'm just popping in for a few minutes at a time, and that's a topic that requires careful writing.
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