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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…
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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…
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…
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[*] Take the square root of the number you've ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 …
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 ...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.Can I just be the first to wish you all a very............happy Easter 2005. Hope the bunny brings you lots of eggs. Tobo.
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On 2004-12-21 00:48, gasman wrote:
Happy [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_root_day"]Square Root Day 2009[/url], everyone.
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The man who thought of that has far too much time on his hands.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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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.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 ...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: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...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.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 ...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 ...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.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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...