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principia.blog
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| | | | | This blog is dedicated to the memory of the singular John Machin, professor of astronomy at Gresham College. He calculated ?? to 100 places of decimals, and, in The Principia, Newton quotes in full an article by Machin on the motion of the nodes of the moon. Cajouri, in his revision of Motte's translation of... | |
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computerhistory.org
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| | | | | December 10, 2015 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Ada Byron, later Countess of Lovelace, most famous for her 1843 description of Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine. | |
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logicmag.io
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| | | | | The proto-Taylorist methods of worker control Charles Babbage encoded into his calculating engines have origins in plantation management. | |
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www.paepper.com
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| | | Python is a great language to build command-line tools in as it's very expressive and concise. You want to have the ability to parse arguments in your scripts as you don't want to hard-code the relevant variable values to make the tool useful. So how do we go about this in Python? It's easily done using the argparse module. With argparse, you define the different arguments which you expect, their default values and their shortcuts to call them. | ||
