Drew Wutka
DWUTKA at marlow.com
Wed Feb 12 00:42:01 CST 2003
Hmmmmm...wasn't really speaking programatically. I was speaking from math terms...I don't know how long ! has meant factorial in the math world. Drew -----Original Message----- From: Arthur Fuller [mailto:artful at rogers.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 4:53 PM To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: RE: [AccessD] multi-platform ASP was: OT: Yee Haw.... I'm not sure about this one, Drew, but as an official old timer I'm pretty sure that ! meant NOT before it meant Factorial. I learned != as NOT EQUAL in something like 1984-5. So I'm on the side of the demented whacko. What languages support ! as Factorial? I would have thought such a rarely used formula would naturally fall outside the language definition and be implemented instead as a function Factorial(), or left for you to write. -----Original Message----- From: accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Drew Wutka Sent: February 11, 2003 5:05 PM To: 'accessd at databaseadvisors.com' Subject: RE: [AccessD] multi-platform ASP was: OT: Yee Haw.... First of all, what demented whacko decided that != is 'not equal'? ! is for factorial. How does that turn an equal sign into a 'not equal' sign. However, <> does make mathematical sense, because something cannot be both less then, and greater then another number, so it represents an inequality...at least more then a factorial does! _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com