As chat groups go...
PJ The Womble
deviant
"PJ The Womble" <spam....@all.thanks.gov.nr> wrote in message
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> We're not being all that chatty at the moment, are we?
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not in a chatty mood really. sure it will pass.
Inspector Frost
"PJ The Womble" <spam....@all.thanks.gov.nr> wrote in message
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PJ The Womble
Inspector Frost <insp...@frostymail.com> typed:
Byyyy thisshhh time of might, sorry, night , you
may be listening but I'm not all that interesssssssssssttttttttttiiiiiiiing.
So I'm going to listen to a nice old Bobby Bland album and a bit of The Ruts
for the minute.
Just before I go, though, an ex-pal of mine who I've known since I was 14
has just brought up a few things I lent him over the years, because I asked
him to in a nice but very compelling way a short while ago.....
He didn't bring up the nice stainless steel flask that I lent him last year.
BUT.... I now have in my hand as I speak an original pressing of "All Mod
Cons" by The Jam, which apparently I lent him in 1981 and he'd forgotten all
about. And 3 good novels, and The Best of The Stranglers on vinyl.
Every cloud.....
Maria
"PJ The Womble" <spam....@all.thanks.gov.nr> wrote in message
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deviant
"Maria" <ma...@mallon8649.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
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> well i could chat about chatting.
and those lovely scams offering unlimited income
PJ The Womble
Maria <ma...@mallon8649.fsnet.co.uk> typed:
Like, look in the dictionary under "recursion", dudette. If you find it
says "see Recursion" then get back to me.
deviant
> Like, look in the dictionary under "recursion", dudette. If you find it
> says "see Recursion" then get back to me.
ahh recursion... my favorite part of computing...... oh no i've gone
crosseyed
PJ The Womble
deviant <xxx...@xxx.xx> typed:
I've yet to work out the Towers of Hanoi problem, and they shot that one at
me 11 years ago!
If anyone's got a good formal method for that. I would not only be happy,
I'd be bloody grateful to see it. I'm still trying to do the thing on the
solitaire prog, before I start playing it, instead of steaming in and
clicking!.
Two things about this:
Asking the woman you're dating about the last woman you went out with is
guaranteed to provide an undefined result. Which knacks the recursive
function at stage n-1!
Woody Allen backs up the idea that everything you can do recursively, you
can do iteratively as well: "I have learned from my mistakes to the point
that I can now repeat them exactly".
deviant
> If anyone's got a good formal method for that. I would not only be happy,
> I'd be bloody grateful to see it. I'm still trying to do the thing on the
> solitaire prog, before I start playing it, instead of steaming in and
> clicking!.
>
i used to have a pascal program listing for the towers of hanoi, and a
mathematical formula defining the number of turns it would take to finish
the game, but god knows where it is now
PJ The Womble
deviant <xxx...@xxx.xx> typed:
I remember that listing in the first-year textbook at uni, but it was
uncommented and I couldn't make head or tail of it. It was included, I
think, as an example of a problem that could only be solved recursively, and
not iteratively - to illustrate the point that anything you can do
iteratively, you can do recursively, but not vice versa.
I'm really pleased I remembered that, actually. I was quite stoned during
that first year of college! Wish I could remember Nicola Waterson's phone
number too. Still, I digress.
Hanoi? No wonder the Americans bombed Vietnam, that's all I've got to say!
kkiranr...@gmail.com
> We're not being all that chatty at the moment, are we?
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thenewch...@gmail.com
> We're not being all that chatty at the moment, are we?