Re: socket port

2012-08-30 Thread Peng Yonghua
You might take a look at AnyEvent Intro: http://search.cpan.org/~mlehmann/AnyEvent-7.02/lib/AnyEvent/Intro.pod 在 2012-8-30,下午9:46, Chris Stinemetz 写道: > Hello List, > > I am creating a program, where for the first time, I will be reading > in data from a socket port. > > I am a bit confused a

Re: greater circle

2012-08-30 Thread Shawn H Corey
On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 15:03:43 -0400 Paul Anderson wrote: > Works great until you start using a coordinate system that places > points on a sphere:) Just pretend it's a really, really big hill. ;) -- Just my 0.0002 million dollars worth, Shawn Programming is as much about organization an

Re: greater circle

2012-08-30 Thread Paul Anderson
Works great until you start using a coordinate system that places points on a sphere:) Paul Anderson -- VE3HOP On 2012-08-30, at 2:31 PM, Uri Guttman wrote: > On 08/30/2012 12:20 PM, Paul Anderson wrote: >> It looks like 2*10^-13 miles is about twice the inter atomic distance in >> d

Re: greater circle

2012-08-30 Thread Uri Guttman
On 08/30/2012 12:20 PM, Paul Anderson wrote: It looks like 2*10^-13 miles is about twice the inter atomic distance in diamond:) i don't know why you need to calculate great circle distances. it is obvious to any observer that the earth is flat so simple geometric distances should be fine.

Re: greater circle

2012-08-30 Thread Paul Anderson
It looks like 2*10^-13 miles is about twice the inter atomic distance in diamond:) Paul Anderson -- VE3HOP On 2012-08-30, at 4:22 AM, Chris Stinemetz wrote: >> >> >> Because floating-point arithmetic as done by limited precision computers is >> always an approximation. An IEEE 754

socket port

2012-08-30 Thread Chris Stinemetz
Hello List, I am creating a program, where for the first time, I will be reading in data from a socket port. I am a bit confused about how to print the processed data while still reading in data from the port. Thus far, I have only processed data from a file where the while loop ends when EOF cr

Re: greater circle

2012-08-30 Thread Chris Stinemetz
> > > Because floating-point arithmetic as done by limited precision computers is > always an approximation. An IEEE 754 double-precision 64-bit floating point > number uses a 53-bit fraction and therefore has about 16 decimal digits of > precision. So calculating zero within 13 digits (e-013) i