Argh #include <stdio.h> #include <math.h> #include <fenv.h> int main () { // don’t set rounding here double ten0 = sin(pow(10.0,22)); fesetround(FE_DOWNWARD); double ten1 = sin(pow(10.0,22)); fesetround(FE_UPWARD); double ten2 = sin(pow(10.0,22)); fesetround(FE_TONEAREST); double ten3 = sin(pow(10.0,22)); fesetround(FE_TOWARDZERO); double ten4 = sin(pow(10.0,22)); printf( "Default: %f\n" "Downward: %f\n" "Upward: %f\n" "ToNearest: %f\n" [...]
I was looking for some standard symbols to represent the Control key and the Alt key, and couldn’t find one until I came across ISO/IEC 9995-7. Because I had much trouble finding a free copy of the document on the ’Net, I have made a table of the symbols and their functions below. I have [...]
While Googling my way through the interwebs, I came across the 2008 Western Australian Certificate of Education sample examination for Stage 2 Biological Sciences. It contains this diagram: If you’re wondering, the entire hierarchy is drawn from Umberto Eco‘s novel Baudolino.
This is in reference to the current ‘Twitter image encoding challenge’ running on StackOverflow. If we want to restrict ourselves to assigned, non-control, non-private Unicode characters, then by my reckoning that gives us 129,775 available characters. wget http://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/UnicodeData.txt awk -F ‘;’ UnicodeData.txt -f countUnichars.awk | bc countUnichars.awk source: BEGIN { print "ibase=16" } # set [...]
