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From: Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Modify text appearance (put spaces after commas just for display)
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2017 04:49:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <864lrht075.fsf@zoho.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20171002215722.3f2200b97c6a53930b2252d8@speakeasy.net

James K. Lowden wrote:

> Well, as I'm sure you know:
>
> 	All generalizations are false.
>
> :-)

It seems, after many years doing this,
discussion has finally reached school-boy
level! How about this one?

    cats exist
    to show
    that not everything
    has to have a function

Pretty good, ey? :)

Here is another interesting school-boy problem.
The result is 12.6 cm which seems reasonable.

;; if you are making a grid
;; out of beams
;; that are of different sizes
;; it doesn't look asymmetric
;; if you make the *holes* equally big!

(defun compute-wood-distance (total beams)
  (let*((sum-beam   (apply #'+ beams) )
        (space      (- total sum-beam))
        (num-holes  (1+ (length beams)))
        (hole-len   (/ space num-holes)) )
    (message "%.1f cm" hole-len) ))

;; (compute-wood-distance 139 '(6 7 9.5 9.5 9.5 9.5)) ;; 12.6 cm

-- 
underground experts united
http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573




  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-03  2:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-26  9:12 Modify text appearance (put spaces after commas just for display) Alberto Luaces
2017-09-26  9:28 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-26  9:31   ` Alberto Luaces
2017-09-26  9:32   ` tomas
2017-09-26 10:14     ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-26 10:30       ` tomas
2017-09-26 11:08         ` Alberto Luaces
2017-09-26 21:29         ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-27  6:23           ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-09-27  8:20             ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-27 12:07             ` tomas
2017-09-27 21:40               ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-28  6:55                 ` tomas
     [not found]             ` <mailman.229.1506975352.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2017-10-03  1:57               ` James K. Lowden
2017-10-03  2:49                 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2017-09-27 12:00           ` tomas
2017-09-27 21:30             ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-28  8:40       ` Kendall Shaw
2017-09-28 11:27         ` Alberto Luaces
2017-09-28 12:09           ` tomas
2017-09-28 16:42             ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-28 17:18               ` tomas
2017-09-29  6:42                 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-29  7:19                   ` tomas
2017-09-29 10:16                     ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-29 10:34                       ` tomas
2017-09-29 11:40                         ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-29  2:02               ` Kendall Shaw
2017-09-29  6:45                 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-28 16:54         ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-26 10:00 ` Yuri Khan
2017-09-26 11:05   ` Alberto Luaces
2017-09-26 13:11     ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-09-26 16:36       ` Alberto Luaces
2017-09-26 13:26 ` Nick Helm
2017-09-26 16:34   ` Alberto Luaces
2017-09-26 14:15 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
2017-09-26 16:39   ` Alberto Luaces
2017-09-29 12:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-29 13:59   ` Alberto Luaces

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