First of all, if variables starting with i to n are integers, could variables starting with a to h be declared as integers too? If not, then the joke doesn't work in Fortran.
That's right. You can explicitly declare any variable to have any (supported) type: INTEGER, REAL, DOUBLE PRECISION, LOGICAL, COMPLEX, CHARACTER. There might be other types - it's a long time since I wrote any Fortran so maybe I forget - or maybe there are new versions of the language. But the type of undeclared (or implicitly declared) variables depends on the first letter. So (as remarked by the poster below) iGod would be integer. As would be Jesus and Mohammed, but God, Allah and Buddah are definitely all real;-)
There's also an IMPLICIT directive so you can change the compiler's idea of what type to assume for undeclared variables. IMPLICIT NONE was introduced at some stage (or might be a vendor-specific) and was actually a requirement in the coding standards at one place I worked.
Note: the implicit rules also apply to function names.
There's a wealth of info at http://www.fortran.com/ in case you have to learn the language quickly. It isn't difficult, but might come as a shock to anyone who only has experience of modern languages.
God is real unless explicitly declared as integer.
Sorry --- old Fortran joke.
(For the youngsters out there: in "traditional" Fortran, variables didn't need to be explicitly declared. Those starting with the letters i to n were integers. The rest were reals.)
IIRC the graphics subsystem *did* run in user space in NT up to and including v3.51. It was NT4 that put them all in the kernel, allegedly on performance grounds, with the inevitable loss of stability. Not that I ever noticed and performance gain when I "up"graded from 3.51 to 4.0.
Speaking as someone who has run Linux on my desktop since about 1996 (and on my home PC long before that), I can say that Windows is not yet ready for my desktop and most likely never will be.
The idea that one might live one's life in private and without fear of molestation is a *very* recent phenomenon.
No, its an assumption that until recently did not need articulation. Privacy invasion on the scale now possible is the *recent* phenomenon, and needs to be brought into check. This might need new legislation, and possibly major changes of government, since unfortunately the current governments of the world seem to be hell-bent on invading privacy instead of acting on the wishes of the 8 out of 10 voters (who expressed a preference) that are against it.
I use one of those every day. I hop in, and then hop out just outside the office. The parking space is even reserved for the vehicle - it's called a "bus stop";-)
OK, so I have to change from the train to the bus part-way through the journey, but that's no great effort. And the 10 minute walk to my local railway station in the morning (and back again in the evening) counts as part of my daily exercise regime;-)
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well that still rules out 97 out of 100 possibilities.
Not really. Both of the factors are prime, so that means that the last digit cannot be 0, 4, 6 or 8. Its also very unlikely to end in 2 or 5, since there is exactly one prime number ending in each of those digits, and those can be ruled out by simple observation. That leaves 4 digits --- 1, 3, 7 and 9, thus there are 16 possible combinations for the two last digits. You narrowed it down to 4 of those possibilities: 1 and 9, 3 and 3, 7 and 7, 9 and 1. So your elimination rate is a mere 75%.
Sorry to disappoint.
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The joke is in the Subject. Nothing more to see. Move along, folks.
There's also an IMPLICIT directive so you can change the compiler's idea of what type to assume for undeclared variables. IMPLICIT NONE was introduced at some stage (or might be a vendor-specific) and was actually a requirement in the coding standards at one place I worked.
Note: the implicit rules also apply to function names.
There's a wealth of info at http://www.fortran.com/ in case you have to learn the language quickly. It isn't difficult, but might come as a shock to anyone who only has experience of modern languages.
Sorry --- old Fortran joke.
(For the youngsters out there: in "traditional" Fortran, variables didn't need to be explicitly declared. Those starting with the letters i to n were integers. The rest were reals.)
Same as books - life + 70
Whose life? The last of director, screenplay writer, soundtrack composer and possibly one other to survive (IIRC).
The poor thing's probably slashdooted by now ;-)
So it's a patent on looking up information in a file and presenting it on the screen. Now I'm sure I've seen that done somewhere before...
IIRC the graphics subsystem *did* run in user space in NT up to and including v3.51. It was NT4 that put them all in the kernel, allegedly on performance grounds, with the inevitable loss of stability. Not that I ever noticed and performance gain when I "up"graded from 3.51 to 4.0.
Speaking as someone who has run Linux on my desktop since about 1996 (and on my home PC long before that), I can say that Windows is not yet ready for my desktop and most likely never will be.
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No. But then murder is wrong. Copyright infringement is merely illegal.
Since long before MS-DOS had them:
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No, its an assumption that until recently did not need articulation. Privacy invasion on the scale now possible is the *recent* phenomenon, and needs to be brought into check. This might need new legislation, and possibly major changes of government, since unfortunately the current governments of the world seem to be hell-bent on invading privacy instead of acting on the wishes of the 8 out of 10 voters (who expressed a preference) that are against it.
OK, so I have to change from the train to the bus part-way through the journey, but that's no great effort. And the 10 minute walk to my local railway station in the morning (and back again in the evening) counts as part of my daily exercise regime ;-)
Don't they do that already?
Not really. Both of the factors are prime, so that means that the last digit cannot be 0, 4, 6 or 8. Its also very unlikely to end in 2 or 5, since there is exactly one prime number ending in each of those digits, and those can be ruled out by simple observation. That leaves 4 digits --- 1, 3, 7 and 9, thus there are 16 possible combinations for the two last digits. You narrowed it down to 4 of those possibilities: 1 and 9, 3 and 3, 7 and 7, 9 and 1. So your elimination rate is a mere 75%. Sorry to disappoint.
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