Drew Wutka
DWUTKA at marlow.com
Wed Feb 12 20:09:00 CST 2003
Technically, that's not a correction, it's a clarification. <VBG> (Charlotte said at least, so 1808 is at least 50 years ago.....) Just proves my point that ! has represented Factorial for quite some time. I wonder if the ! was used, because it is close to the other math characters (+-*, etc.) in Ascii value. A not equals is really an equal sign with a slash through it, so maybe the != combination is supposed to represent that (since there is no Ascii representation for a true 'not equal'). Probably should have been |=. Who knows.... Drew -----Original Message----- From: Shamil Salakhetdinov [mailto:shamil at smsconsulting.spb.ru] Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 7:55 PM To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: Re: [AccessD] multi-platform ASP was: OT: Yee Haw.... > For the last 50 years at least, Drew. Correction! :) It was introduced almost 200 years ago in 1808 by Christian Kramp: http://www.roma.unisa.edu.au/07305/symbols.htm#Ancillary Shamil ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charlotte Foust" <cfoust at infostatsystems.com> To: <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 3:16 AM Subject: RE: [AccessD] multi-platform ASP was: OT: Yee Haw.... > >>I don't know how long ! has meant factorial in the math world. > > For the last 50 years at least, Drew. > > Charlotte Foust > > -----Original Message----- > From: Drew Wutka [mailto:DWUTKA at marlow.com] > Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 10:42 PM > To: 'accessd at databaseadvisors.com' > Subject: RE: [AccessD] multi-platform ASP was: OT: Yee Haw.... > > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > _______________________________________________ > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com