Philabellalology all the way

[R.D. Silverman]

Originally Posted by philmoore

Hmm, sounds like you need to take your own advice!

K has no odd factors here. It is a power of 2.........

[xilman]

Originally Posted by R.D. Silverman

K has no odd factors here. It is a power of 2.........

Hmm, what became of the requirement in mathematics of saying precisely what you mean rather than assuming that the reader can somehow glork it from context?

;-)


Paul

[R.D. Silverman]

Originally Posted by xilman

Hmm, what became of the requirement in mathematics of saying precisely what you mean rather than assuming that the reader can somehow glork it from context?

;-)


Paul

Guilty of not mentioning that K was a power of two. As charged.

[WVU Mersenneer]

Originally Posted by xilman

Hmm, what became of the requirement in mathematics of saying precisely what you mean rather than assuming that the reader can somehow glork it from context?

;-)


Paul

Paul, outstanding "avatar"! Did you create it??

"Glork"? Ah man, I must be really out of my league here, now. Is there also a reference text of terms for beginners who don't spreche ze lingity?

I didn't mean to offend anyone or start a battle between geniuses with my questions. I joined this project because I have always loved numbers, and I joined the forum in an attempt to learn more about what is "behind" these numbers and the math used in the software.

I appreciate Dr. Silverman's passion and zeal and respect his knowledge, abilities, and accomplishments, and he is certainly entitled to his opinions. Maybe he needs to work with the moderators of this forum to build a "you must be at least THIS smart to post here" test so that people with good intentions but not enough education, in his opinion, don't tick him off.

Thanks to Paul and philmoore for their replies, much thanks again to mini-geek for all of the help and explanations, and I'm sorry I got you in trouble with Bob.

[bsquared]

Originally Posted by WVU Mersenneer

"Glork"? Ah man, I must be really out of my league here, now. Is there also a reference text of terms for beginners who don't spreche ze lingity?

I grokked that to be a typo for grok.

[WVU Mersenneer]

Originally Posted by bsquared

I grokked that to be a typo for grok.

*inserts Keanu Reeves "woah" wave file*

so...much...knowledge...

[xilman]

Originally Posted by WVU Mersenneer

Paul, outstanding "avatar"! Did you create it??

Sadly, no. I wish I had.

"Glork"? Ah man, I must be really out of my league here, now. Is there also a reference text of terms for beginners who don't spreche ze lingity?

I didn't mean to offend anyone or start a battle between geniuses with my questions. I joined this project because I have always loved numbers, and I joined the forum in an attempt to learn more about what is "behind" these numbers and the math used in the software.

I appreciate Dr. Silverman's passion and zeal and respect his knowledge, abilities, and accomplishments, and he is certainly entitled to his opinions. Maybe he needs to work with the moderators of this forum to build a "you must be at least THIS smart to post here" test so that people with good intentions but not enough education, in his opinion, don't tick him off.

Thanks to Paul and philmoore for their replies, much thanks again to mini-geek for all of the help and explanations, and I'm sorry I got you in trouble with Bob.

You didn't get anyone in trouble. Bob is well known for his requiring terminological exactitude so every time he fails to meet his own high standards everyone jumps at the opportunity to tease him about it. philmoore and I managed to get in first this time.

Paul

[xilman]

Originally Posted by bsquared

I grokked that to be a typo for grok.

Close, but no cigar. "Glork" or "glark" is an invented word used to show how much of the meaning of a sentence lies in the structure of the sentence rather than the words themselves.

glark /glark/ vt. To figure something out from context. "The System III manuals are pretty poor, but you can generally glark the meaning from context." Interestingly, the word was originally `glork'; the context was "This gubblick contains many nonsklarkish English flutzpahs, but the overall pluggandisp can be glorked [sic] from context" (David Moser, quoted by Douglas Hofstadter in his "Metamagical Themas" column in the January 1981 "Scientific American"). It is conjectured that hackish usage mutated the verb to `glark' because glork was already an established jargon term. Compare grok, zen.

Paul

[WVU Mersenneer]

Originally Posted by xilman

Close, but no cigar. "Glork" or "glark" is an invented word used to show how much of the meaning of a sentence lies in the structure of the sentence rather than the words themselves.

glark /glark/ vt. To figure something out from context. "The System III manuals are pretty poor, but you can generally glark the meaning from context." Interestingly, the word was originally `glork'; the context was "This gubblick contains many nonsklarkish English flutzpahs, but the overall pluggandisp can be glorked [sic] from context" (David Moser, quoted by Douglas Hofstadter in his "Metamagical Themas" column in the January 1981 "Scientific American"). It is conjectured that hackish usage mutated the verb to `glark' because glork was already an established jargon term. Compare grok, zen.

Paul

Need NCAA tournament basketball and pizza to ease my frazzled mind...

[xilman]

Originally Posted by WVU Mersenneer

Need NCAA tournament basketball and pizza to ease my frazzled mind...

Gewürtztraminer and a concoction including chicken, harissa and couscous tonight. But whatever turns you on.

(My initial proposal for this evening was pizza but SWMBO dictated that was too calorific.)

Paul

[FactorEyes]

Originally Posted by WVU Mersenneer

Paul, outstanding "avatar"! Did you create it??

It's a good one, though I can't say I care for 4 very much.