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| | | | | Over on the Stroppy Editor blog, Tom Freeman has written a response to Lionel Shriver's article in Harper's complaining about semantic drift. You should go check Freeman's article out here. I want ... | |
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| | | | | In the not-too-distant past English used the pronoun "him" to refer to individuals of unspecified gender in phrases such as "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion." This understandably annoys som... | |
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| | | | | A flop is one of the elementary arithmetic operations $latex +$, $latex -$, $latex *$, $latex /$ carried out on floating-point numbers. For example, evaluating the expression $latex (b - ax)/c$ takes three flops. A square root, which occurs infrequently in numerical computation, is also counted as one flop. As an example, the computation of... | |
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