Creating "absolute random noise on a disk" is not easy either since the entropy available on any given machine is probably minuscule compared to the disk space. Writing pseudorandom bits on a disk will not be sufficient to hide non-pseudorandom, encrypted data, especially if the data is big.
Good grief! They're probably doing that "menial" job better than you possibly could. Where do you get the self-righteous pretension to talk down to housewives? Maybe it's puberty that fried *your* brain. Do you honestly think software engineering is more important than homemaking?
Well, it's obvious that you do, and you're what's wrong with the educational system.
One of the most thorough that I've seen is: Algorithms for Computer Algebra by K.O. Geddes, et. al. If you're not very good at modern algebra, don't bother shelling out the ~$270 for this book. (I got my copy for $80 used.) Geddess, et. al. are the ones who designed and wrote Maple.
I might come as a surprise to some, but symbolic mathematical systems require a lot of advanced math! Finishing the college calculus sequence is about 3 years insufficient to start scratching the surface. So, there aren't many people who know the math and know how to write software. I think that's why Mathematica and Maple are so darn expensive. I think you'd need a bunch of graduate-level people to make up your QA team!
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Creating "absolute random noise on a disk" is not easy either since the entropy available on any given machine is probably minuscule compared to the disk space. Writing pseudorandom bits on a disk will not be sufficient to hide non-pseudorandom, encrypted data, especially if the data is big.
Good grief! They're probably doing that "menial" job better than you possibly could. Where do you get the self-righteous pretension to talk down to housewives? Maybe it's puberty that fried *your* brain. Do you honestly think software engineering is more important than homemaking?
Well, it's obvious that you do, and you're what's wrong with the educational system.
Maybe /. isn't the place to ask, but I could use some smart friends for my own graphing calculator project. It's Java and open source.
Any takers?
This is a plug for my project: GCalc.net. It's a graphing calculator written in Java so it'll run uniformly on any Java-enabled browser.
It's used by many mathematics classrooms around the world for demonstrations and assignments.
One of the most thorough that I've seen is: Algorithms for Computer Algebra by K.O. Geddes, et. al. If you're not very good at modern algebra, don't bother shelling out the ~$270 for this book. (I got my copy for $80 used.) Geddess, et. al. are the ones who designed and wrote Maple.
I might come as a surprise to some, but symbolic mathematical systems require a lot of advanced math! Finishing the college calculus sequence is about 3 years insufficient to start scratching the surface. So, there aren't many people who know the math and know how to write software. I think that's why Mathematica and Maple are so darn expensive. I think you'd need a bunch of graduate-level people to make up your QA team!
I think that's what math's all about.
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