From - Tue Jul 23 15:41:16 1996 Received: from inet1.tek.com (inet1.tek.com [134.62.48.21]) by locke.ccil.org (8.6.9/8.6.10) with SMTP id PAA07158 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 15:52:16 -0400 Received: by inet1.tek.com id ; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 12:30:13 -0700 Received: from tektronix.tek.com(134.62.48.24) by inet1 via smap (V1.3) id sma025790; Tue Jul 23 12:29:34 1996 Received: from orca.wv.tek.com (dhcp_wv.ens.tek.com [134.62.8.23]) by tektronix.tek.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA27834 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 12:30:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pogo.wv.tek.com by orca.wv.tek.com (4.1/8.2) id AA11558; Tue, 23 Jul 96 12:33:26 PDT Received: from catenary.WV.TEK.COM by pogo.wv.tek.com (4.1/8.0) id AA23213; Tue, 23 Jul 96 12:29:31 PDT Received: from localhost by catenary.WV.TEK.COM (4.1/8.0) id AA20707; Tue, 23 Jul 96 12:29:31 PDT Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 12:29:30 -0700 (PDT) X-UIDL: 838151746.000 From: David A Johnston Reply-To: David A Johnston To: John Cowan Subject: Re: trouble with the textbook. In-Reply-To: <199607231825.LAA23108@sun.lclark.edu> Message-Id: X-Windows: The cutting edge of obsolescence Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: U X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 748 On Tue, 23 Jul 1996, John Cowan wrote: > The example is in error (and will be corrected in the next > release): it should read "... le plise ku le stedu ku". > > Thanks for calling this to our attention, and please continue > to note any errors or infelicities you find. Thanks for the help. If you're looking for errors, that whole section (1.4) made the same mistake with all its darxi example phrases. -marvin /*-------------------------------------------------------*/ a(m,W)float m,W;{int e=1;float p,Q,n;p=m;Q=W;while(e++<126) {n=p;p=p*p-Q*Q+m;Q=2*n*Q+W;if((p*p+Q*Q)>=4)return e;}return 0;}main(){float _,E=1.5;while((E-=0.130434783)>-1.5){for(_= (-2);_<1;_+=0.037974684)putchar(a(_,E)+32);putchar('\n');}}