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The Pythagorean addition algorithm is iterative and really quite simple. I'm glad I looked it up: https://blogs.mathworks.com/images/cleve/moler_morrison.pdf

I recently implemented something somewhat similar, but from the perspective of set membership. I therefore needed to include a complement operation, so that I could do full Boolean…

I can't make an intelligent contribution, but I found it an interesting read, and thank you for posting it.

Until someone forces you to use a file system that cannot tolerate commas...

X makes its money selling advertising. France is the obvious place to have an office selling advertising to a large European French-speaking audience.

I would guess that is intended for a daily cycle, perhaps using air source heat pumps at times of day when the air temperatures are higher and electricity prices are lower, then us…

Presumably he is regarded as more sensible than some other candidates that might have appealed to the President.

I was hoping that someone would be able to point me to some practical technical advance enabled by discoveries or measurements at CERN (or similar establishments). It seems plausib…

As someone who supports pure science research, I would be interested to understand if any of the discoveries of CERN (and related projects) in the last 50 years (say) have proved t…

I sometimes run my MATLAB code under Octave (generally needs some minor tweaks to catch up with a few new features) and while I don't hit bugs, I find it is much slower. I think th…

I would look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabine_Hossenfelder before I took this too seriously

Is that "No, I never open sourced anything"? Or, "No, I have open sourced things, but never regretted it"?

An interesting game, if you can come up with enough good questions. (At least it isn't telling me which digits are right, but in the wrong place). With a target of 20% accuracy, it…

> other countries would be wise to adopt that Until they can't import food and can't feed their people

The Tom Tom data is interesting, but time taken for 10 km is not really an appropriate metric. In a more densely populated city, journeys are likely to be shorter.

Interesting - I have believed for many years that it was around 17 MPH. I felt that this tallied with my observations - as traffic levels increase, vehicles slow down (increasing t…

You probably have to go quite a long way into answering "is it feasible" type questions, before you can answer "is it cost effective" questions. Maturing a technology will typicall…

I assumed that optimisation of run-time stopped when run-time on a modern computer was judged acceptable.

It doesn't need to replace conventional charging. But a phone that gained charge when unused might still be useful - being able to make a call later might be better than never.

(2016)

Quite possibly, with a suitable distribution of sites around the UK coast, the total power generation might be nearly constant over time. A guaranteed minimum power generation woul…

In 1948 it was the 5 Nations, not the 6 Nations (I assume that the question hasn't been rewritten since you saw it)

For those interested: Ian Fleming (1908-1964), Frederick Forsyth (1938-2025). So roughly a generation apart, but Forsyth lived to 84, while Fleming died at 56 (all those cigarettes…

I find it really surprising that a current affairs report of this sort is not clearly dated. I wonder if NPR do better with more recent articles?

Rwanda was under German, then a Belgian rule. I don't believe Britain was involved.