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Bill R aka N1VUX
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semi-retired. Perl & other FLOSS software. Scotch+Armagnac. Genealogy. old coastal fortifications. Radio. Maths. ^Sarcasm thus.^
December 4, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Combine above with the Taylor Series answer on Mathstodon and you've got the whole of it
December 4, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Reposted by Bill R aka N1VUX
...further. Meanwhile, housing outpaced wages, amplifying the pain. Politically, the promise to cut prices was undeliverable—and now visibly broken. The appropriate response is income‑raising, margin‑shrinking policy, not magical price reversals… 2/
December 4, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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December 4, 2025 at 1:32 AM
That could be the best news yet.
December 4, 2025 at 12:33 AM
right, and the whole Revolution theme.
December 4, 2025 at 12:31 AM
19th C? intentional exaggeration or off-by-one?
December 4, 2025 at 12:12 AM
IEEE 32bit binary floating point has 24 bits fraction including one implicit leading 1, so 23 significant bits, which is a plausible match?

(If it were a Decimal or BCD engine internally, i'd expect final digit 9.)
December 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
log(1−0.9999998)÷log(2) = -22.253...
tells us that
* the floating point binary in the calculator has about 22-23 bits of significance, and so
* this is as close to 1.0 as it can t without rounding up to 1.0;
* and its rounding rules dont allow √(1-ε) to round up to 1.0
December 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Sounds right. That's very much New Old South's steeple.
"940 Reservoir [via] Beacon St" placard on trolley 🚎 threw me until i found old surface rail connections Boylston -> Mass Ave -> Beacon that would allow such a route.
December 3, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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The branded shipping tape was a classy surprise! 😍
December 2, 2025 at 6:11 PM
👍🏻 Would also solve the problem of getting chalk-dust on the tweed sleeves.
December 2, 2025 at 4:46 PM
combining Spinal Tap and Comptometer in one thread ! 😍
December 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM
While Frost attended Harvard for a bit and died in Boston (at the Brigham), he's more associated with N.H. & VT (& Library of Congress), so a Robert-Frostival would more likely be nearer to a northern N.E. rock wall.
December 1, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Toto did say better for Mercedes power to win WDC, he'd rather have rest of car too if course. So maybe 🤔
November 30, 2025 at 5:31 PM