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  • Car boot visitHi everyone, Well todays car boot fair trip produced the square root of fuck all in the Spectrum dept, although I did pick up some decent books, God…

    ... boot fair trip produced the square root of fuck all in the ...
    Gilby Gilby September 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • New-fangled calculators and other marvellous educational devicesI started an a-level maths class at night in the local tech last week and was amazed by two items of wonderful gadgetry that must be new since I left…

    ... = 1/4 + 4 times the square root of 17 / 3

    BigBadMick BigBadMick September 2007 Chit chat
  • What do you want from Spectrum 2.0?Hopefully most people here are aware of [url=http://spectrum20.org/]Spectrum 2.0[/url], my site for reviews and non-anonymous voting on Spectrum game…

    ... poll ends.
    [*] Take the square root of the number you've ...
    Philip Kendall Philip Kendall August 2009 Games
  • ZX BASIC (Boriel's Compiler) - LibrariesWell, we have a nascent option on a sprite library coming together, thanks to na_th_an's fourspriter being retooled for the job. It's not general pur…

    ... done some fast trig and square root stuff as library code options ...
    Gedlion Gedlion May 2010 Development
  • University ChallengeNearly two weeks ago Manchester University won the first University Challenge semi-final to get into the upcoming final against Pembroke College, Cam…

    ... /> Paxman: “Give the largest real root of the following polynomial equations ... /> “FIVE!”
    “No, it’s root three. And finally, x to ... that the answer is a square root e.g.

    X ... so the answer is the square root of three.
    Manchester are ...
    Geoff Geoff March 2012 Chit chat
  • Elliptical ChallengeSubsequent to the recent "Graph Plot" thread, I wrote this general purpose ellipse drawing routine which will plot (although it doesn't actually use …

    ... that if the multiplication and square root parts were written in "long ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny November 2012 Development
  • Moments of code-nerd-moments out in "real life".I just remembered a thing that happened a week ago. I was at a beer festival and at one time I was manning the wardrobe (I was volunteering to help …

    ... ]Well, it's also the square root of 65536[/I]".

    Sokurah Sokurah May 2014 Chit chat
  • Mighty Maths ProgramsIn a break from typing in listings from 37-year-old magazines, I had a sudden urge to write a maths-related program, as I do, occasionally. Some, suc…

    ... , the golden ratio and the square root of 2 were all accurate ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone March 2020 Sinclair Basic
  • Can I just be the first to wish you all a very............happy Easter 2005. Hope the bunny brings you lots of eggs. Tobo.

    Happy [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_root_day"]Square Root Day 2009[/url], everyone.
    gasman gasman December 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Can I just be the first to wish you all a very............happy Easter 2005. Hope the bunny brings you lots of eggs. Tobo.

    [quote]
    On 2004-12-21 00:48, gasman wrote:
    Happy [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_root_day"]Square Root Day 2009[/url], everyone.
    [/quote]

    The man who thought of that has far too much time on his hands.
    chaosmongers chaosmongers December 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Homing missile routine - help neededI am attempting to write a routine which will allow a missile to home in on a player. Basically the sort of thing you see in most shoot-em-up games. …

    ... have to write your own square root routine, plus a binary chop ...
    jonathan jonathan March 2006 Development
  • Lesser used BASIC commandsAre there any interesting articles or books that explore some of the lesser used BASIC commands/functions e.g. DEF FN, IN, OUT etc? The Spectrum BAS…

    ... surely trying to calculate the square root of a negative number would ...
    Ian Hamilton Ian Hamilton May 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Lesser used BASIC commandsAre there any interesting articles or books that explore some of the lesser used BASIC commands/functions e.g. DEF FN, IN, OUT etc? The Spectrum BAS…

    ... surely trying to calculate the square root of a negative number would ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Benchmark timeWell, the BASIC benchmark posted in Creative Computing back in the 80s came up as a topic on the AtariAge forums. The article is available online an…

    ... a=a^2 and iterative square root instead of SQR)
    Accuracy ...
    JamesD JamesD December 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…

    ... , only rooms numbered as the square of a prime number are ... without having to calculate a square root first.
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas March 2008 Development
  • New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…

    ... , only rooms numbered as the square of a prime number are ... without having to calculate a square root first.[/quote]

    I ...

    I think the square gives the impression of more ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP March 2008 Development
  • Help Please: ZX Spectrum Book, Hardback Edition.I know there were a few typos in the ZX Spectrum book that slipped through the net (which is unforgivable seeing how long it took me!) I'm trying to…

    [quote=andrew_rollings;320234]Actually, I think Martijn probably has the best number... But I'll wait for him to reveal that!

    I have number 0.[/quote]

    It was delivered just now! Indeed, a great number: the square root of -1 :grin:
    mheide mheide December 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Today is the dayThis evening brings a somewhat special event to all of us: date +%s -d "13-Feb-2009 23:31:30 UTC" Glad I didn't miss it. :) Patrik

    [i][b]Apparently...[/b][/i] Today (3/3/09) is Square Root Day...
    NickH NickH March 2009 Chit chat
  • Today is the dayThis evening brings a somewhat special event to all of us: date +%s -d "13-Feb-2009 23:31:30 UTC" Glad I didn't miss it. :) Patrik

    [quote=NickH;338903][I][B]Apparently...[/B][/I] Today (3/3/09) is Square Root Day...[/quote]

    Did you all celebrate 19-11-1999?

    The last date we had with only odd numbers in it.
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP March 2009 Chit chat
  • Bit of geometry doing my head inI have a 2D rectangle of known dimensions, its sides are parallel to the X and Y axes. I'm trying to find an algorithm which will take the rectangle…

    ... radius, rather than taking the square root of all those co-ordinates ... for a computer to calculate square roots and find a solution ... numerical iteration, but all those square root signs make it extremely difficult ...
    ajmoss ajmoss July 2009 Chit chat
  • What do you want from Spectrum 2.0?Hopefully most people here are aware of [url=http://spectrum20.org/]Spectrum 2.0[/url], my site for reviews and non-anonymous voting on Spectrum game…

    ... poll ends.
    [*] Take the square root of the number you've ...
    Spector Spector August 2009 Games
  • A couple of maths questions (theory, not application)1. Some bloke has worked out the value of PI to nearly 2.7 trillion digits, according to: [URL]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8442255.stm[/UR…

    The square root of 2 is an irrational ... neat.

    1) Assume Root 2 = a/b and a ... an irreducible fraction, and therefore Root 2 cannot be a irreducible ... fraction so root 2 is irrational.
    < ... how to type 'squared' and 'root' notation.
    WhizzBang WhizzBang January 2010 Chit chat
  • Optimize this assembly?Aiming for Variable*192 -> HL In the first case, I came up with the obvious method - *128 +*64: [code] ld a, (variable) ;13 ld h,0 ; 7 ld l,…

    ... page to write some better square root stuff (which you would probably ... />
    I got floating point square root to be about 6 times ... the rom calculator), and integer square roots to be 100 times ...
    Gedlion Gedlion August 2010 Development
  • A Bit of Fun!! Three word story.Ok, so lets build up a random story. [b]Rules[/b] Each person must submit three words each. Consecutive posts are not allowed. You must allow a mini…

    square root of
    takapa takapa August 2010 Chit chat
  • designing a computerHi everyone! I am designing a 4 bit computer and i need some advice, is this a good instruction set? [CODE] BINARY OPCODE DESCRIPTION 00000 nop…

    ... go via R0.

    Square roots:
    [code]
    ; ... value
    ; On exit, R3=square root
    ; Working registers:
    ; ... ; R2=subtractand
    ; R3=root
    ;
    .root
    LDA #1 ; R0 ... R3 ; R3=0 - R3=initial root
    .loop
    LDA ...
    Jonathan Harston Jonathan Harston September 2010 Chit chat
  • Fast LogsAnyone know of a fast ln function I can steal? The ROM function seems to be hideously slow. I wrote a look-up table dirty and less accurate sin func…

    ... I forged the Newton Raphson square root calculator routine based on the ...
    Geoff Geoff April 2011 Development
  • Assembly help: EQUCan anyone explain in duffers language the purpose of the EQU term in assembly? I found this info in another thread: EQU: Equate a name to a specif…

    ... /> ENDM

    MACRO fsqrt ; square root
    defb 0x28
    ENDM ...
    chev chev April 2011 Development
  • Am I going Senile??Lately I have noticed that I have a distinct problem remembering peoples names, I've always been bad with names, but recently I forget the names of p…

    ... posed by the OP, the square root of the hypotenuse ought always ...
    ZnorXman ZnorXman June 2011 Chit chat
  • Am I going Senile??Lately I have noticed that I have a distinct problem remembering peoples names, I've always been bad with names, but recently I forget the names of p…

    ... posed by the OP, the square root of the hypotenuse ought always ...
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk June 2011 Chit chat
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