Re: [racket] Order of Operations - Getting the brackets.

2010-12-24 Thread Barry Brown
A nickel is worth 5 cents (or pence :) and a dime is worth 10 cents. Quarters are 25 cents. Coins are used for amounts under a dollar; bills for everything a dollar and over. -B On Dec 22, 2010, at 8:21 PM, Sayth Renshaw wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 2:26 AM, Todd O'Bryan wrote: > I

[racket] List abbreviations in Beginning Student

2010-06-30 Thread Barry Brown
I noticed that beginning students are able to use list abbreviation constructors. It doesn't return the list in abbreviated form, however. (list 1 2 3) returns (cons 1 (cons 2 (cons 3 empty))) Is that correct? I thought list abbreviations in all its forms were reserved for the Beginning Student

Re: [racket] tennis and programming, not completely off-topic

2010-06-24 Thread Barry Brown
Here's a link to a NY Times blog entry about the match in question: http://straightsets.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/23/logistics-are-put-to-the-test-at-wimbledon/ One commenter pointed out that 48 in binary is 11. More likely, those boards may be pretty old and the score is encoded in BCD, so