Anyone know the context in which the word "animalbabies" appears in the Bill Gates April 1987 Byte Magazine article? From Factiva's full text archive:
Figure 3: A Microsoft Excel macro program called AnimalBabies. AnimalBabies is a guessing game where the program displays an animal randomly selected from a table named ''animals'' and asks the user to guess what the offspring is called.
I also received this story in an operations research (management science to some) class here in Australia - the moral of the story there being that the solution to an optimisation problem might not always be mechanical.
Seems like it's an anecdote with applications for just about everything!
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I also received this story in an operations research (management science to some) class here in Australia - the moral of the story there being that the solution to an optimisation problem might not always be mechanical.
Seems like it's an anecdote with applications for just about everything!
Probably... but at least you'll be able to heat water to fill your existing sink.