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Article #1188Re: optical diff (was Re: Emacs)
From: dt... David M Tate
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 1990 15:05
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 1990 15:05
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In article <1990Feb2.0...@cs.rochester.edu> k...@cs.rochester.edu writes:
>The solution I came up with was to take the correct printout, overlay
>it with the suspect printout, align the letters and hold both against
>the light. It worked.
I love it! "Analog software tools"!
The closest thing to that that I can recall was a case of the most primitive
conceivable graphical output. The output was in tabbed columns of left-
justified numbers. Some genius got the idea of scaling the output so that
the cutoff between "significant" values and "normal" values was a power of 10,
so that all the significant points "hung off the end" of the column...
--
David M. Tate | "The logarithms of 1,2,...,10 to base 10^(1/40)
dt...@unix.cis.pitt.edu | are conveniently close to whole numbers, which
| when you think about it, is why there are 12
"A Man for all Seasonings" | semitones in an octave." -- I. J. Good.
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