Anyone try this yet?

[LordShryku]

[dalecosp]

Maybe this would help? 😉

[drawmack]

that code is inefficient, it should be

for(i=0;i<500;i++) because < is less clock ticks then <=

[Weedpacket]

He also missed the newline on the end.

Once I had to write 200 times "I must not hit stones with my tennis paddle"; every line contained a different error, e.g., "I must not hit my stones with tennis paddle".

[LordShryku]

Weed, you must not hit your stones with anything. Ya know, just in case you ever wanna have kids

[dalecosp]

Originally posted by Weedpacket
He also missed the newline on the end.

Well, possibly; he may have just been attempting to utilize the available space more efficiently. I don't know about down there, but most often when you see this situation depicted on the tube up here they just write and write, no newlines, until all available blackboards and occasionally a portion of the wall are covered. Granted, if they were careful to keep character size and line lengths, they could create tables/columns .....

Once I had to write 200 times "I must not hit stones with my tennis paddle"; every line contained a different error, e.g., "I must not hit my stones with tennis paddle".

So, that explains it. You were compiled with rand() built in!! 😉 😃

[bad76]

/me send it to Bart Simpsons...

😃

[Weedpacket]

Originally posted by dalecosp
Granted, if they were careful to keep character size and line lengths, they could create tables/columns .....

Irritatingly obscure fact #1241:

If a line (written in a monospaced font) that is more than half the page in width is typed repeatedly (without those newlines, and word-wrapping as necessary), there will be one column on the page which is completely blank.

This is a line more than half my wraparound in length. This is a line more than
half my wraparound in length. This is a line more than half my wraparound in
length. This is a line more than half my wraparound in length. This is a line
more than half my wraparound in length. This is a line more than half my
wraparound in length. This is a line more than half my wraparound in length.
This is a line more than half my wraparound in length. This is a line more than
half my wraparound in length. This is a line more than half my wraparound in
length. This is a line more than half my wraparound in length. This is a line
more than half my wraparound in length. This is a line more than half my
wraparound in length. This is a line more than half my wraparound in length.
This is a line more than half my wraparound in length. This is a line more than
half my wraparound in length. This is a line more than half my wraparound in
length. This is a line more than half my wraparound in length. This is a line
more than half my wraparound in length. This is a line more than half my
wraparound in length. This is a line more than half my wraparound in length....

[piersk]

Please tell me you didn't work that out yourself...

[dalecosp]

Originally posted by Weedpacket
Irritatingly obscure fact #1241:

Fascinating!

[mystrymaster]

/bows to weedpacket, you have too much time 🙂 I'm going to start calling you cliff claven (that's for the older crowd)

when I saw that I almost fell off my chair that is funny as hell

[dalecosp]

Originally posted by Weedpacket
Irritatingly obscure fact #1241:

If a line (written in a monospaced font) that is more than half the page in width is typed repeatedly (without those newlines, and word-wrapping as necessary), there will be one column on the page which is completely blank.

However, you can negate this ever so slightly by using improper spacing after the punctuation. Not that this negates the irritation, nor the obscurity, of this fact. 😃

This is a line more than half my wraparound in length.This is a line more than
half my wraparound in length.This is a line more than half my wraparound in
length.This is a line more than half my wraparound in length.This is a line
more than half my wraparound in length.This is a line more than half my
wraparound in length.This is a line more than half my wraparound in length.
This is a line more than half my wraparound in length.This is a line more than
half my wraparound in length.This is a line more than half my wraparound in
length.This is a line more than half my wraparound in length.This is a line
more than half my wraparound in length.This is a line more than half my
wraparound in length.This is a line more than half my wraparound in length.
This is a line more than half my wraparound in length.This is a line more than
half my wraparound in length.This is a line more than half my wraparound in
length.This is a line more than half my wraparound in length.This is a line
more than half my wraparound in length.This is a line more than half my
wraparound in length.This is a line more than half my wraparound in length....

[Weedpacket]

If you want you can recover it by reintroducing the American typographical convention of two spaces between sentences...And replace "line" with "sentence"...

[dalecosp]

If you want...

Of course; I was just pointing out that the result of my looking at this fact showed that if you used zero spaces, it allowed the periods to fall into the "groove" created by this fact, even though the "groove" is still there. If you use more than zero spaces (equal, throughout, which is the idea given by the original fact) you do get the clear column as originally stated.

I'm not trying to argue with you; I'm well aware of the fact that my cranial processor is not wired with the same width bitpath that yours is, esteemed sir. I was just attempting to demonstrate that I could think a little also 🙂 ????

Should we add to the irritating fact the statement that "(is completely blank), which will be at the point immediately after the period of the first sentence" or something like that? (Or, better yet, should we concentrate on business ... I hear the sound of clients slipping away....)

Incidentally, why isn't it true for sentences less than 50% wide?

[Weedpacket]

Originally posted by dalecosp
I was just attempting to demonstrate that I could think a little also 🙂 ????

The difference comes about because the absent space means that the last word of each iteration merges with the first word of the next forming a longer word, meaning that the first line has different "words" from subsequent lines, and hence doesn't necessarily agree on where to wrap.

The upshot as you've illustrated is to add an extra "jerk" to the start of the paragraph, which periodically throws the alignment out. Said jerk wouldn't be there if the first line was identical in word count/length to the rest.

Incidentally, why isn't it true for sentences less than 50% wide?

You sure it's not? 🙂 If the length of the line (with trailing space) is an integer fraction of the wordwrap, then the result is pretty dull; if it's not, then you can put ceil(wordwrap/(2*linelength)) copies together to make a line more than 50% of the wordwrap.

[Merve]

You sure you're not a mathematician, Weed 😃

What about tabs? Would they throw off the equation?

Actually, the convention of using two spaces after a period is barely used anymore, thank god. I hated that. It was especially frustrating when I was learning how to type. Why were there two spaces? I couldn't put my head around it...

[drawmack]

Merve,
To get a bachelors in computer sciences (which I'm pretty sure weed has and I honetly think he's gone beyond that) you need to take calc I, calc II, Discrete Mathematics, Linear Algebra and Statistics. So yes every computer scientist is a mathematician. This particular application I believe is related to Discrete as it deals with a finite sentence in a finite space.

[Weedpacket]

Originally posted by Merve
You sure you're not a mathematician, Weed 😃

Now, what would make you think that?.

Actually, the convention of using two spaces after a period is barely used anymore, thank god. I hated that. It was especially frustrating when I was learning how to type. Why were there two spaces? I couldn't put my head around it...

It only made sense for monospaced fonts - i.e., typewriters. It allegedly had some typographical benefit to indicate the end of the sentence with extra space in such a font; since a full stop is such a small character to begin with, there was already an unusually large amount of whitespace around it, and between that and the extra narrowness of capital letters, the idea was that the extra space made it easier to see the end of the sentence.

I was never convinced of that argument, and with proportional fonts it's moot anyway: the convention of putting the comma following quoted text inside the quotes instead of outside was developed for the same reason - it was so hard to position ", and have it look good compared with ,". That's another convention I've never followed.

[Merve]

Ah, Weed, it is not grammatically incorrect to place two spaces after a period. However, I'm sure my English teacher would laught at me if I put my commas after the quotation marks. I'm starting to think that I should stick to learning Hindi...it's the language with the least exceptions 🙂

[Weedpacket]

Originally posted by Merve
However, I'm sure my English teacher would laught at me if I put my commas after the quotation marks.

Hah, it's only for the sake of printing with lead type, and who does that these days? Besides, I can cite prior art.