From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: program to compute gears, with table Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2017 23:56:51 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <86ingssvks.fsf@zoho.com> References: <86bmmlu54a.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1504908064 11132 195.159.176.226 (8 Sep 2017 22:01:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 22:01:04 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 09 00:00:59 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dqRKQ-00026e-Rw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Sep 2017 00:00:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47446 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dqRKY-0008MV-5v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Sep 2017 18:00:54 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed8.news.xs4all.nl!news.redatomik.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,rec.bicycles.tech Original-Followup-To: gnu.emacs.help,rec.bicycles.tech Original-Lines: 43 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: XiPr5pdukK7aCRjr/wfS1Q.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org Mail-Copies-To: never X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:/DRN9zn6H2Y1w0QKQIjfbB/rehs= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:220100 rec.bicycles.tech:1003557 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:114206 Archived-At: Frank Krygowski wrote: > I first did such a thing in the 1970s, using > Fortran. Cool! Fortran (Formula Translation, 1957) sounds like the perfect idea. Perhaps the formating (output report) should be left to COBOL tho :) (Common business-oriented language, 1959). Today I think the hipsters at the universities would use Haskell (1990). > But I formatted it as a compact table in rows > and columns. You could have one row for each > chainring, one column for each rear cog. > A matrix, 2x8. The idea with having it 8x3 was that the third column would be the "roll out" and that would be sorted vertically. But perhaps I'll add a feature to flip it later. > Another useful trick is to plot the gear > development on a logarithmic scale, so the > change from one gear to the next is scaled as > the percentage change. Plotting using > a separate row or a separate symbol for each > chainring makes clear which gear is "next" in > your gear progression. Yes, I thought about doing that. Perhaps with ASCII art or using gnuplot which I did some cool plots with. Here is one: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/figures/gnuplot/science-inverted.png -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573