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How to work a stroller - and infant - into a daily workout
|Stroller Strides fitnesss instructor Jennifer Lungren demonstrates walking lunges which can be done while out walking baby. (Jonathan Ernst/Chicago Tribune/MCT)
But while hitting the gym daily with an infant or tot may be nearly impossible, getting your workout done doesn't have to be. Simply pop your baby into the stroller and hit the streets. Go the the Lifestyle/ Health page at rep-am.com for tricks to working out with a baby on board.
Jennifer Lungren, an instructor in Virginia for Stroller Strides (a fitness program for moms with tots), shared her best tricks to working out with a baby on board.
Before you start, warm up with a 5-minute jog or power walk. After each exercise, repeat the run or power walk for 3-5 minutes. If any of the exercises are painful, stop immediately.
Starting in a standing position with your hands on the stroller handlebar, place your feet hip-width apart with your feet and knees facing forward. Sit down as if you're moving backward into a seat, and squeeze your glutes and thighs to bring yourself back into the starting standing position. Push the stroller out as you sit, and pull it back in as you come up.
Reps 15-25
Side plie squat:
With your right side facing the stroller and right hand on the stroller, stand with your toes facing out and take a large step away from the stroller. Squat down, dropping your bottom as low as you can with your body weight in your heels, pushing the stroller away from you. As you come up, pull your right leg in to meet the left leg. Repeat all the reps on this side, and then switch sides.
Reps 15-25
Walking lunges:
Standing behind the stroller with your hands on the handlebar step forward with your right leg. The stroller will move forward as you move forward. Bend your front knee to a 90-degree angle so that your right thigh is parallel to the ground and your right shin is perpendicular to the ground. Your back leg should be almost straight. Keep your torso upright with your hips and shoulders facing forward. Use your right leg to return to your starting position. Don't use your stroller to help lift you; it may tip backward if you put too much weight on it. Instead, use the power of your front leg. Alternate with the other leg.
Abs pull:
Face the stroller with your right side, standing with your feet no more than hip-distance apart with your toes facing out. Use your right hand to push the stroller away while reaching overhead with your left arm. Your right arm should extend out straight. Use your abs, focusing on the left side, to pull the stroller back. Go through all the reps and then switch sides.
Reps 15
Cardio baby tickle:
Standing in front of the stroller with your feet together, jump your legs apart and lower your bottom into a squat position with your body weight in your heels. As you lower, reach forward with your arms and do a tickle motion toward your baby, but don't actually touch your baby, as this could put stress on your lower back.
Reps: Do this for 20 seconds and rest for 10 seconds. Repeat four times.
Peek-a-boo stroller crunches:
Lie on your back next to the stroller facing your baby with your feet flat on the ground, knees bent at 90 degrees. Put your hands behind your head, keeping your elbows back. Squeeze your belly button to your spine and crunch up. As you come up, peek into your stroller, saying "Peek-a-boo" to your baby, and lower back down. Exhale as you come up, keeping your elbows back.
Reps 25
Cardio drills:
Standing in front of the stroller, bend at the knees and push your hips back, running with your feet staying as low as possible.
Reps Run for 20 seconds and rest for 10 seconds. Repeat four times.
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The Verification Corner - Loop Termination
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In this episode of The Verification Corner, Rustan Leino, Principal Researcher in the Research in Software Engineering (RiSE) group at Microsoft Research, shows how to prove loop termination. During his demonstration, Rustan presents the theoretical background information necessary to build the proof before modeling it using the Dafny language.
The Verification Corner is a show on Software Verification Techniques and Tools. The show is produced by the Research in Software Engineering team (RiSE), which coordinates Microsoft's research in Software Engineering in Redmond, USA.
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Minor nitpick: Around 2:35 the argument is made that one needs to ensure a minimum decrease for the loop termination expression; however this is not the case. Rather, it is sufficient and necessary that the sequence of values either diverges, or converges to a value less than zero. For instance, both these loops will provably terminate, for any positive values of x and n:
/* decreases x - 1 */ while (x > 1) { x = x / 2; }
/* decreases x */ while (x > 0) { x = x - (1 / n); n = n + 1; }
while (x > 0) may terminate in theory but wont do that in any other case .
int x = 1, n = 100000; while (x > 0) { x = x - (1 / n); n = n + 1; } n = 0x7ffffffe, x = 1 n = 0x7ffffff, ... n = 0x8000000, ..., n = -1, x = 2 n = 0 -> div by zero
In your particular examples, there is minimum decrease. In the first example (with x = x/2), every iteration decreases x by at least 0.5 (since the loop body is entered only if x>1). In the second example, there is not a single constant that will work for every run of the program. However, the minimum decrease can be computed from the values that x and n have just before the loop begins. For example, let X denote the initial value of x and suppose the initial value of n is 1; then, it will take about e^X iterations before the 1/n terms add up to X, where e is the base of the natural logarithm and I'm using ^ to denote exponentiation; so, each iteration will decrease x by at least 1 / e^X.
What you are getting at, though, is correct, namely that what is necessary and sufficient for the loop to terminate is that the successive iterations can be mapped to strictly decreasing values in some well-founded order.
I downloaded Boogie and dafny verifiers and wanted to know if the Dafny editor used in the demo available for download. I couldn't locate it anywhere.
@iman.saleh: We just recently released the Visual Studio 2010 mode for Dafny, see http://boogie.codeplex.com, click "How to install and build the sources" and then scroll down to "Visual Studio integration".
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With three other high-quality teams in the field, it was not going to be easy for the Skyline volleyball team to advance from the 2A sub-state they hosted on Saturday. After sweeping Kinsley aside in the opening round, the T-Birds fell in the semis to Kiowa County, who went on to lose to Bucklin-Ashland in the finals.
To start the match against Kinsley, T-Bird Shelby Bender served 6 straight points before the Coyotes could get a side out. Things snowballed from there and Skyline claimed the first set 25-8. The second set saw Kinsley lead for a rotation or two early on, but then the Lady Thunderbirds began clicking again and they went on to post a 25-12 win in the second set, giving them a straight set victory over the Coyotes 25-8; 25-12.
In the semis, Skyline met up with #9 Kiowa County. The T-Birds took the Lady Mavs to three sets before falling. In the opener, Skyline survived a 26-24 OT game. Kiowa County won the next two sets 20-25; 18-25 to win the match 2 sets to 1.
There was disappointment, but no sour grapes from Skyline head coach Summer Younie following her team's ouster from the tournament. "I thought we played fairly well," she said. "I knew that we would have to play our best in order to make it out—and we didn't. We played a little timid at the net. We needed to hit more aggressively. I thought we passed the ball well and served well—and at times we played really great."
"Our sub-state was tough, but that's how it should be," Younie continued. "It should make teams step up and compete hard to win the opportunity to qualify for state."
With the defeat, Skyline's volleyball season comes to an end. It was a good season, with a 30-8 record and an HOPL championship to boast of. 6 seniors graduate, but a good nucleus will return next season.
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December 03, 2012
Cool summer entertainment for 2012/2013 in Cape Town
It's not just the weather that's hot in Cape Town during summer – it's the entertainment, too!
Whether you're taking in a comedy show at the impressive Theatre on the Bay in Camps Bay, singing along to an international performer's greatest hits at the Cape Town Stadium in Green Point, or enjoying live music acts on the sprawling lawns of the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, things are heating up in the Mother City.
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Theatre on the Bay
Location: 1a Link Street, Camps Bay
Contact: +27 (0)21 438 3301
Website: www.theatreonthebay.co.za
Alan Committie in No, Seriously?
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Date: December 4, 2012, to January 5, 2013
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Date: January 8 to 26, 2013
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Fascinating Aida – The Cheap Flights Tour
Britain's best comedy cabaret trio bring their special brand of entertainment to the Theatre on the Bay stage, regaling fans with their infamous anthem to budget travel, Cheap Flights, and a few new songs too.
Date: January 30 to February 16, 2013
Richard's Supper Stage & Bistro
Location: Main Road, Sea Point
Contact: +27 (0) 76 144 4809
Website: www.richardscapetown.co.za
New Year's Gala
Ring in the New Year at this popular entertainment venue with a spectacular gala. Your ticket to the hottest show in town includes a special festive edition of Kaapse Stories, magic by popular mentalist Larry Soffer, a special gourmet menu and more!
Date: December 31, 2012
Cape Town Stadium
Location: Green Point
Website: www.capetown.gov.za
Lady Gaga: The Born This Way Ball
Little monsters, your eccentric, chart-topping Mother is coming to town!
Date: December 3, 2012
Contact: +27 (0) 861 915 8000
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The biggest lifestyle party the Mother City has ever known celebrates with a Fairytale Fantasy theme, so challenge your inner Evil Queens and Prince Charmings and dance the night away.
Date: December 15, 2012
Contact: +27 (0)21 461 1645
Website: www.mcqp.co.za
Cape Town Carnival 2013
Rio comes to Cape Town Stadium's fan walk and forecourt with the largest parade, featuring spectacular floats, dancers, music and more.
Date: March 16, 2013
Contact: +27 (0)21 406 2947
Website: www.capetowncarnival.com
Metallica LIVE
The prayers of Capetonian headbangers have been answered, with the massively popular heavy metal band making its way to the Fairest Cape for one night only.
Date: April 24, 2013
Contact: +27 (0) 861 915 8000
Website: www.computicket.com
V&A Waterfront
Location: V&A Waterfront, Cape Town
Contact: +27(0)21 408 7600
Website: www.waterfront.co.za
V&A Summer Concerts 2012/2013
Date: December 1, 2012 to January 27, 2013
The perfect way to spend a summer's evening at the city's premier seaside shopping destination, the V&A Waterfront's concerts feature a revolving list of top local artists.
Cape Town International Convention Centre
Location: Convention Square, 1 Lower Long Street, Cape Town
Contact: +27 (0)21 410 5000
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Cape Town International Jazz Festival 2013
Jazz aficionados will experience the groovy talents of Buena Vista Social Club, Brand New Heavies, Jimmy Dludlu, Reza Khota Quartet and more at the 14th Cape Town International Jazz Festival.
Date: April 5 to 6, 2013
Contact: +27 (0)21 422 5653
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Artscape Theatre
Location: DF Malan Street, Foreshore
Contact: +27 (0)21 410 9800
Website: www.artscape.co.za
The Nutcracker
Fall in love with the classic tale of Clara and the Nutcracker in this world-famous ballet.
Date: December 13 to 23, 2012
Contact: +27 (0)861 915 8000
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Dirty Dancing
Have the time of your life with this stage production of the hit movie.
Date: January 18 to February 17, 2013
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Suidoosterfees 2013
This celebration of Afrikaans theatre and music is a must-attend event.
Date: January 29 to February 3, 2013
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Website: www.suidoosterfees.co.za
Alexander Upstairs
Location: 76 Strand Street, Cape Town
Contact: +27 (0)21 300 1088
Website: www.alexanderbar.co.za
Minnie & Johnson Do Alexander Bar
Cabaret duo Godfrey Johnson and Emile Minnie bring a touch of flair to your weekend with their not-to-be-missed set.
Date: December 14
Mark FransMan Sings
SAMA Award-winning artist Mark FransMan will inspire you with his acoustic folk, rock and soul music.
Date: December 19, 2012
Elegant Deceptions
Prepare to have your mind blown by illusionist and sleight-of-hand maestro Stuart Lightbody in an evening of strange psychological experiments …
Date: December 20, 2012
Grand Arena
Location: Grand West Casino, 1 Vanguard Drive, Goodwood
Contact: +27 (0)21 505 7777
Website: www.suninternational.com
Chris Brown Carpe Diem World Tour
Award-winning R&B singer Chris Brown makes his Cape Town debut on the Grand Arena stage, to thousands of adoring fans.
Date: December 19 to 20, 2012
Contact: +27 (0)861 915 8000
Website: www.computicket.com
Rodriguez Live
Mr Sugarman himself makes a welcome return to the Mother City's shores, performing his classic hits in support of the documentary Searching for Sugarman.
Date: February 20 to 21, 2012
Contact: +27 (0)861 915 8000
Website: www.computicket.com
Baxter Theatre
Location: Main Road, Rondebosch
Contact: +27 (0)21 685 7880
Website: www.baxter.co.za
I Don't Work on Sundays!
Local funnyman Marc Lottering is in top form in the brilliant one-man show, I Don't Work on Sundays!
Date: November 30, 2012, to January 5, 2013
Contact: +27 (0)861 915 8000
Website: www.computicket.com
The Little Mermaid
Fred Abrahamse and Marcel Meyer bring the magical tale of a mermaid seeking true love to the Baxter Theatre stage.
Date: December 4 to 29, 2012
Contact: +27 (0)861 915 8000
Website: www.computicket.com
Kalahari Karoo Blues
Theatre legend David Kramer brings together eccentric musicians from the far corners of Southern Africa – the Kalahari, the Hardeveld and the Klein Karoo for a jamming session like no other.
Date: January 9 to 19, 2013
Contact: +27 (0)861 915 8000
Website: www.computicket.com
Maynardville Open Air Theatre
Location: Maynardville Open Air Theatre, Maynardville
Contact: +27 (0) 21 410-9800
Website: www.artscape.co.za
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Park is brought to live by the Bard's legendary comedy about love, romance, magic and dreams, starring Terence Bridgett and Marcel Meyer.
Date: January 21to February 23, 2013
Contact: +27 (0)861 915 8000
Website: www.computicket.com
Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden
Location: Rhodes Avenue, Newlands, Cape Town
Contact: +27 (0)21 799 8783/8620
Website: www.sanbi.org
Old Mutual Summer Sunset Concerts at Kirstenbosch
From Freshlyground to The Parlotones and Prime Circle, there are plenty of fabulous local artists to enjoy at the Summer Sunset concerts.
Date: December 2, 2012 to April 7, 2013
Website: www.webtickets.co.za
Kalk Bay Theatre
Location: 52 Main Road, Kalk Bay
Website: www.kbt.co.za
Absinthe in Concert
Sexy lead singers of the popular bands Wonderboom and Sugardrive, Cito and Paul E. Flynn, will rock out to all-time classics by the best-known bands in history as new outfit Absinthe.
Date: December 8, 2012
Concert for the Andrew Meddick Benefit Fund
Your Sunday gets a magical and musical ending with blues-rock from Johnny Ray Band, Berkley Hunt and System Renegade, as well as a magician.
Date: December 9, 2012
Face the Music II
The musical trivia game with a difference is back for round 2, so sharpen those pencils and enjoy this singalong show.
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MOUNDSVILLE - A pair of first-year head coaches guided their teams to championships Wednesday at the second-annual Bill Hinegardner OVAC Dual Meet Championships at the John Marshall Field House.
Wheeling Park defeated John Marshall, 45-22, for the Class 5A crown, while River downed Monroe Central, 48-19, for the Class 3A title.
Steubenville High School will play host to Class 4A and Class 2A/1A action today at 6 p.m. There, in Class 4A, Big Red will battle Martins Ferry, while Oak Glen will face Harrison Central. Shadyside and Toronto will face off in one Class 2A/1A semifinal, while Steubenville Catholic and Caldwell will tangle in the other.
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ON THE MAT — Brooke's Maurice Gambill grapples with Morgantown's Karsten Cartwright during the Bruins' consolation match with the Mohigans at the OVAC Dual Meet Championships Wednesday at John?Marshall Field House.
-- Rick Thorp
The Patriots scored some redemption after falling to the Monarchs in last year's 5A final at WesBanco Arena.
''We felt like we really didn't wrestle our best last season,'' Wheeling Park coach Jack Doyle said. ''So, we were out to make sure it didn't happen again.
''We didn't want to leave any doubt.''
And they didn't.
With the score knotted at 18-18, Park won seven of the final eight bouts, the final two by fall.
''I told the kids we were going to go on a run starting with 138 (pounds),'' Doyle said. ''And with Dylan (Taylor) getting a pin at 138 and Johnny Davis wrestling against a good kid at 145 and Alex McGlumphy at 152 we had the ball rolling.
Danny Colby, who won his 100th career match Wednesday, secured a technical fall at 160. Later, Isaiah Myers won at 182 before Cody Amos and Geremy Paige finished things off at 195 and 220.
Amos pinned his opponent in 16 seconds before Paige pinned his in 28.
John Marshall's Cullen Ebbert got things started by pinning Casey Hewitt in 2:36. It was Cullen's 101st career triumph. He reached the century mark in his first match of the night.
Dallas Baciak won by technical fall at 113 before JM went on a tear.
Zach Tubaugh (120), Tyler Goode (126) and Casey Mowder (132) won three straight matches to tie the score.
The Patriots, who thrashed Morgantown, 62-9, in the semifinals, are off until next week's West Virginia Class AAA regional at Brooke High School. The Monarchs, which topped Brooke, 39-21, in their semifinal, will also be there, along with Morgantown and perennial favorite Parkersburg South.
The Mohigans defeated the Bruins, 47-24, in the consolation match.
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Class 3A
Almost three weeks after winning the Class 3A crown at the Ron Mauck OVAC Championships, River picked up some more hardware by drubbing Monroe Central.
The Pilots also picked up some momentum heading into next week's sectional tournament.
River led 18-15 before blowing things open in the later weights. In fact, the Pilots won the final five matches.
Picking up pins for River were Joe Dotson (285), Freddie Mundt (145), Brandon Ruesser (170), Dakota Dunn (182) and Brett Rosen (220), in what was the final bout of the match.
The Seminoles got pins from Jaren Hupp (126) and Chase Carothers (138).
The victory is especially gratifying for Rosen, who has been with the program for five years. He served as an assistant under Marty Winkler before taking over for legendary mat boss Dr. Vince Monseau upon his retirement.
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A vote for the proposition would allow the legislature to separately classify and tax watercraft or to exempt watercraft from property taxes and impose another form of tax. A vote against the proposition would not change the way watercraft are taxed, and they would continue to be taxed in the same manner.
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I'm considering buying a netbook for the express purpose of writing maths notes/articles (so as to not heft my Macbook around), hence (La)TeX is a must. The most obvious choice is to work with Linux, but failing that I was wondering if there is a LaTeX distribution for Chrome. And as I'm unfamiliar with the version/s of windows that appear on netbooks, would the usual distributions (MikTeX, say) work for them?
Google Chrome OS is just a basic basic stuff that is needed to start the web browser, not much more.
My guess is to use something like the netbook edition of Ubuntu, that one has a gui that may fits those smaller screen quite well.
And the goodie is then that you can apt-get all the normal LaTeX packages that is present in the normal Ubuntu dist.
Even if Google Chrome is just a browser, the idea that you can use your netbook as a frontend to a web-based editor and a cloud-backed LaTeX compiler might be tempting, given that the resources of those machines are limited.
I know two of such services:
Both allow you to compile the PDF "on the cloud" and will let you download the PDF.
I don't know how they behave with custom macros and such, but it could be a good idea for smallish and not-so-important projects.
As far as I know, there is no special version of Windows for netbooks. Indeed I am told that the only reason to use Windows on netbooks is because you can use all your regular Windows application. So yes, you will be able to use MikTeX and your favorite text editor.
For Linux based netbook operating systems, TeX Live should install fine.
There even seems to be a port for the N900 phone, no luck for Android based devices though.
(Note that this only applies as long as the netbook is not completely locked down (like iDevices). I do not know if there are currently any lock down netbooks on the market.)
If you are comfortable with a delayed compile, you can write it on one machine and compile on another later. If you are coding LaTeX, presumably you don't need WYSIWYG.
If you want the PS/PDF now, and are online, you can install Dropbox, set up a remote compile script, and therefore let LaTeX reside on a different computer.
Linux runs flawlessly on my asus 1005ha 10 inch netbook :P So do the ConTeXt minimals.
MikTeX is excellent and will run on Vista/7/XP TeXLive is available from the ubuntu package manager, or you can install TeXLive on your own.
WINDOWS is not your only option on a netbook!
Chrome is essentially a linux distribution, so with some hacking you will be able to get a linux distribution of latex working on ChromeOS. This however, will be without the blessed wonders of a package manager, so you will have to keep track of everything yourself, and download all the extra (non-latex2e) packages yourself. Personally I would just install Ubuntu netbook remix.
texlive works fine on my netbook (acer aspire one) with different Linux distributions. There is no need to install a special netbook edition. I had no problems with kde4 or gnome.
I installed TexLive via DVD, not via package manager and do my TeX-Works with vim. Maybe you'll like kile more (kile is an LaTeX-IDE, comparable with TeXniCenter).
You can use virtually any OS supported by the hardware and compatible with TeXLive to get good results. Your choices range from Windows to Linux and also the BSDs. Even though you have limited screen real estate, a good TeX aware editor like TeXWorks can be a very good choice to use as well as TeXLive. The entire TeXLive distribution on my system (TeXLive2010-amd64-FreeBSD) is about 2 GB, so it doesn't eat the entire disk on a newer netbook.
I just downloaded a small app for android, called VerbTex from Verbosus (verbosus.com) I allows to write/compile tex documents. Those documents can be stored locally (for free) or in verbosus host (small or unlimited -for a charge-). local documents can be edited locally but compilation is done only remotely. One good plus is that packages are already installed.
I've had great success with a netbook-suitable distro of Linux (Ubuntu Netbook Remix, specifically) and texlive from the repos. You can also set up a source control system (e.g. git, cvs, etc.) or dropbox and keep your notes synced across your netbook, laptop, home computer, server, etc.
If you decide to go on the windows side you could use a portable installation on a pendrive


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Are there any other ways to demonstrate that $$\sin(x)=\sum_{k=0}^{\infty}\frac{(-1)^kx^{1+2k}}{(1+2k)!}$$
without using the definition of Taylor series of complex exponentials, and similarly for $\cos(x)$?
Are there any other ways to demonstrate that $$\sin(x)=\sum_{k=0}^{\infty}\frac{(-1)^kx^{1+2k}}{(1+2k)!}$$
without using the definition of Taylor series of complex exponentials, and similarly for $\cos(x)$?
There's the way Euler did it. First recall that $$ \sin(\theta_1+\theta_2+\theta_3+\cdots) = \sum_{\text{odd }k \ge 1} (-1)^{(k-1)/2} \sum_{|A| = k}\ \prod_{i\in A} \sin\theta_i\prod_{i\not\in A} \cos\theta_i. $$ Then let $n$ be an infinitely large integer (that's how Euler phrased it, if I'm not mistaken) and let $$ x= \frac{\theta}{n} + \cdots + \frac{\theta}{n} $$ and apply the formula to find $\sin x$. Finally, recall that (as Euler would put it), since $\theta/n$ is infinitely small, $\sin(\theta/n) = \theta/n$ and $\cos(\theta/n) = 1$. Then do a bit of algebra and the series drops out.
The algebra will include things like saying that $$ \frac{n(n-1)(n-2)\cdots(n-k+1)}{n^k} = 1 $$ if $n$ is an infinite integer and $k$ is a finite integer.
This is from Simmons' Calculus. It's in an exercise.
$$ \cos x \leq 1$$ $$ \int_0^x\!\cos t \,\mathrm{d}t\leq \int_0^x\! \,\mathrm{d}t$$ $$ \sin x \leq x$$ $$ \int_0^x\!\sin t \,\mathrm{d}t\leq \int_0^x\! t \,\mathrm{d}t$$ $$ \left.-\cos t\right|_0^x\leq \frac{ x^2}{2}$$ $$ 1-\cos x\leq \frac{ x^2}{2}$$ $$ \cos x\geq 1-\frac{ x^2}{2}$$
Continuing, you see that $\sin x$ is less than its expansion when truncated after progressively higher odd numbers of terms and, in alternation, that $\cos x$ is greater than its expansion truncated after progressively higher even numbers of terms.
I don't have the book in front of me. I think this was intended more to suggest the expansion than to rigorously prove it, but my theoretical understanding isn't quite up to identifying what's lacking or to correcting anything. Still, I thought it was interesting when I saw it and I hope it's relevant.
Here is a mosquito-nuking solution: one can use Lagrangian inversion:
$$f^{(-1)}(x)=\sum_{k=0}^\infty \frac{x^{k+1}}{(k+1)!} \left(\left.\frac{\mathrm d^k}{\mathrm dt^k}\left(\frac{t}{f(t)}\right)^{k+1}\right|_{t=0}\right)$$
and let $f(t)=\arcsin\,t$; probably the only deal-breaker here is that the expressions for the derivatives get progressively unwieldy. However, if one takes limits as $t\to 0$ for these derivatives, one recovers the familiar sequence $1,0,-1,0,1,\dots$.
There is a version of Lagrange inversion that uses the coefficients of the original power series instead of the function itself. Mathematica natively supports this operation through the
and then compare with the output of
Other methods, including a modification of newton's method for series, have been presented, but I won't get into them here.
We can start with the basic definition of $e$: $$ e=\lim_{n\to\infty}\left(1+\frac{1}{n}\right)^n $$ then raise $e$ to a real power $x$: $$ \begin{align} e^x&=\lim_{n\to\infty}\left(1+\frac{1}{n}\right)^{nx}\\ &=\lim_{n\to\infty}\left(1+\frac{x}{n}\right)^n \end{align} $$ Next we can extend this to imaginary exponents: $$ e^{ix}=\lim_{n\to\infty}\left(1+\frac{ix}{n}\right)^n\tag{1} $$ One way to look at $(1)$ is using the Binomial Theorem to get a series for $e^{ix}$. $$ \begin{align} e^{ix} &=\lim_{n\to\infty}\left(1+\frac{ix}{n}\right)^n\\ &=\lim_{n\to\infty}\sum_{k=0}^n\binom{n}{k}\left(\frac{ix}{n}\right)^k\\ &=\lim_{n\to\infty}\sum_{k=0}^\infty\frac{P(n,k)}{n^k}\frac{(ix)^k}{k!}\\ &=\sum_{k=0}^\infty\frac{(ix)^k}{k!}\tag{2} \end{align} $$ Passing the limit inside the sum is legal because $\frac{P(n,k)}{n^k}\to 1$ monotonically, and because the final sum converges absolutely.
Another way to look at $(1)$ is using the geometry of complex numbers.
Recall that for a complex number, $z$, we have $$ \begin{align} \left|z^n\right|&=|z|^n\tag{3a}\\ \arg\left(z^n\right)&=n\arg(z)\tag{3b} \end{align} $$ Furthermore, recall that $$ \begin{align} \textstyle\left|1+\frac{ix}{n}\right|&=\textstyle\sqrt{1+\left(\frac{x}{n}\right)^2}\tag{4a}\\ \textstyle\arg\left(1+\frac{ix}{n}\right)&=\textstyle\tan^{-1}\left(\frac{x}{n}\right)\tag{4b} \end{align} $$ Using $\mathrm{(3a)}$ and $\mathrm{(4a)}$, we get $$ \begin{align} \left|e^{ix}\right| &=\left|\lim_{n\to\infty}\textstyle\left(1+\frac{ix}{n}\right)^n\right|\\ &=\lim_{n\to\infty}\textstyle\left(1+\left(\frac{x}{n}\right)^2\right)^\frac{n}{2}\\ &=\lim_{n\to\infty}\textstyle\left(1+\left(\frac{x}{n}\right)^2\right)^{n^2\frac{1}{2n}}\\ &=\lim_{n\to\infty}\textstyle\left(e^{x^2}\right)^\frac{1}{2n}\\ &=1\tag{5} \end{align} $$ Using $(3\mathrm{b})$ and $(4\mathrm{b})$, we get $$ \begin{align} \arg(e^{ix}) &=\arg\left(\lim_{n\to\infty}\textstyle\left(1+\frac{ix}{n}\right)^n\right)\\ &=\lim_{n\to\infty}\textstyle n\;\tan^{-1}\left(\frac{x}{n}\right)\\ &=x\;\lim_{n\to\infty}\textstyle\tan^{-1}\left(\frac{x}{n}\right)\left/\frac{x}{n}\right.\\ &=x\tag{6} \end{align} $$ Using $(5)$ and $(6)$, we see that $e^{ix}$ has length $1$ and argument $x$. Converting $e^{ix}$ to rectangular coordinates, we get $$ e^{ix}=\cos(x)+i\sin(x)\tag{7} $$ Comparing the real and imaginary parts of $(2)$ and $(7)$, we get the series for $\sin(x)$ and $\cos(x)$.


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What are the advantages and disadvantages of using one instead of the other in C++?
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If you want to know the true answer, you should read What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic.
In short, although
Many compilers do extended floating point math in "non-strict" mode anyway (i.e. use a wider floating point type available in hardware, e.g. 80-bits and 128-bits floating), this should be taken into account as well. In practice, you can hardly see any difference in speed -- they are natives to hardware anyway.
This question is impossible to answer since there is no context to the question. Here are some things that can affect the choice:
If you have a specification, then that will guide you to the optimal choice. Otherwise, it's down to experience as to what to use.
Unless you have some specific reason to do otherwise, use double.
Perhaps surprisingly, it is double and not float that is the "normal" floating-point type in C (and C++). The standard math functions such as sin and log take doubles as arguments, and return doubles. A normal floating-point literal, as when you write 3.14 in your program, has the type double. Not float.
On typical modern computers, doubles can be just as fast as floats, or even faster, so performance is usually not a factor to consider, even for large calculations. (And those would have to be large calculations, or performance shouldn't even enter your mind. My new i7 desktop computer can do six billion multiplications of doubles in one second.)
Double is more precise but is coded on 8 bytes. float is only 4 bytes, so less room and less precision.
You should be very careful if you have double and float in your application. I had a bug due to that in the past. One part of the code was using float while the rest of the code was using double. Copying double to float and then float to double can cause precision error that can have big impact. In my case, it was a chemical factory... hopefully it didn't have dramatic consequences :)
I think that it is because of this kind of bug that the Ariane 6 rocket has exploded a few years ago!!!
Think carefully about the type to be used for a variable
I personnaly go for double all the time until I see some bottlenecks. Then I consider moving to float or optimizing some other part
This depends on how the compiler implements double. It's legal for double and float to be the same type (and it is on some systems).
That being said, if they are indeed different, the main issue is precision. A double has a much higher precision due to it's difference in size. If the numbers you are using will commonly exceed the value of a float, then use a double.
Several other people have mentioned performance isssues. That would be exactly last on my list of considerations. Correctness should be your #1 consideration.
Use whichever precision is required to achieve the appropriate results. If you then find that your code isn't performing as well as you'd like (you used profiling correct?) take a look at:
I think regardless of the differences (which as everyone points out, floats take up less space and are in general faster)... does anyone ever suffer performance issues using double? I say use double... and if later on you decide "wow, this is really slow"... find your performance bottleneck (which is probably not the fact you used double). THEN, if it's still too slow for you, see where you can sacrifice some precision and use float.
double has higher precision, whereas floats take up less memory and are faster. In general you should use float unless you have a case where it isn't accurate enough.
The main difference between float and double is precision. Wikipedia has more info about Single precision (float) and Double precision.
It depends highly on the CPU the most obvious trade-offs are between precision and memory. With GBs of RAM, memory is not much of an issue, so it's generally better to use
As for performance, it depends highly on the CPU.


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Pointers and Reference looks similar but there are some difference between both of them.
- Its not necessary to initialize the pointer at the time of declaration. Like
int a = 10; int *P = &a; //It is not necessary
int a = 10; int *P; P = &a;
- You can create the array of Pointer.
- You can assign NULL to the pointer like
int *P = NULL; //Valid
- You can use pointer to pointer.
- Its necessary to initialize the Reference at the time of declaration. Like
int &a = 10; int &a; //Error here but not in case of Pointer.
- You can not create the Array of reference.
- You can not assign NULL to the reference like
int &a = NULL; //Error
- You can not use reference to reference.
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Hatcher states the following theorem on page 114 of his Algebraic Topology:
If $X$ is a space and $A$ is a nonempty closed subspace that is a deformation retract of some neighborhood in $X$, then there is an exact sequence $$...\longrightarrow\widetilde{H}_n(A)\overset{i_*}\longrightarrow \widetilde{H}_n(X)\overset{j_*}\longrightarrow\widetilde{H}_n(X/A)\overset{\partial}\longrightarrow \widetilde{H}_{n-1}(A)\overset{i_*}\longrightarrow... $$
where $i: A\hookrightarrow X$ is the inclusion and $j:X \rightarrow X/A$ is the quotient map.
Perhaps I am having a brain malfunction at the moment, but what are some interesting nonempty spaces which do not satisfy these criterion? By interesting, I mean something that appears "in nature."


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The best they can do is roam around the edge trying to pick off Gunners and Blasters. Their granades are also decent to throw into the control point during a fight, but most classes simply bring more to the table in this map.
On Moon Base they are fairly balanced I feel. The map is bigger so mobility is more important. It's still a control point map and they aren't very good at defending nor assaulting a heavily guarded CP, but they can go around taking out isolated enemies and harassing incoming attackers so your teammates can capture the CP.
On Training Facility they are simply the best choice, period. Their mobility becomes extremely powerful, they can fly high into the air, scan the area for suitable targets, go in and slaughter the enemy and use Q and then E to fly out of range of anything other than enemy scouts before the enemy can retaliate.
While Blazers still destroy them, Scouts can simply not engage them or run away if engaged on, find another target or wait for the Blazer to be low on health and then go in for the kill.
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SEBRING | Most people believe Harder Hall has been vacant since the resort closed in 1986.
Certainly that applies to flesh-and-blood people, with the exception of an occasional homeless person, but some maintain the ghosts of departed winter residents Elma and Elva Spooner and a former manager still haunt Harder Hall.
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The 5 Most Horrifyingly Wasteful Film Shoots
#2. The Ten Commandments Built a City and Then Buried It
In the early days of cinema when the industry was lawless, the name Cecil B. DeMille was synonymous with a complete disregard for budgets, deadlines and human safety. Yet despite the train wrecks his projects should have been, he somehow managed to crank out overblown blockbusters that were critically hated but publicly adored. He was the Michael Bay of the early 1900s, the king of crowd-pleasing spectacle.
In the next scene, the cows start fixing cars in their bras and panties.
So, when he was shooting the original The Ten Commandments film in 1923, DeMille was not likely to cut corners on any of the effects. He was determined to have everything as authentic as possible, stating, "We don't fake anything in pictures; we've got to have the real thing." Unfortunately for DeMille, the story was inconveniently set in ancient Egypt, making authenticity a little tricky. Logically, the next best thing was to rebuild ancient Egypt in California.
The set was the largest ever built. It included four 35-foot-tall, 20-ton pharaoh statues, 21 sphinxes and 300 chariots. The entire thing took an army of 1,000 workers more than a month to build.
How long did it take those slackers in Egypt to build theirs?
The production was so massive that the studio threatened to pull the plug on the whole film if he didn't tone it down, but DeMille presumably stared them in the eye while ordering 5,000 animals and more than 2,500 extras to top it all off. Then everything was shipped piece by piece by train from Hollywood 150 miles north to the Guadalupe sand dunes in California.
Now, building a life-size replica of ancient Egypt is one thing, but what to do with it when you've finished filming? Already over budget, DeMille didn't fancy paying to have it taken back to Hollywood, where other filmmakers might actually have some use for it again. He also knew he couldn't just leave it all standing there in the desert. So, he did what anyone would do: He hired a load of bulldozers and spent a day pushing sand over it. Remarkably, he did it all in complete secret, too. Most locals assumed the props had been taken with the crew, so they never bothered hunting for the remains.
And just so no one would talk, he buried the crew, too.
The Lost City of DeMille stayed buried for over 60 years before a young film buff named Peter Brosnan happened to be reading the director's autobiography, where DeMille mentioned that one of the most lavish film sets ever constructed was lying under some Californian sand. In 1983, Brosnan and his friends discovered the set and found that much of it was still completely intact, albeit a bit sandy. They have since attempted to raise money to preserve the site, but so far people seem content to let it stayed buried until it's rediscovered thousands of years from now and confuses the hell out of those silver-suited archaeologists.
"By Jove, this could be the Lost Tomb of the Kardashians!"
#1. Ben-Hur and Charge of the Light Brigade Slaughtered Horses
We've previously established that the chariot race in the 1925 film Ben-Hur was one of the most dangerous film shoots in history. In a quest for realism at the expense of life, the film recreated a full on, no-holds-barred chariot race among the stuntmen with a $100 incentive for the winner, and at least one loser was treated to the consolation prize of death. But that's not why it's on our list; the scene was also responsible for killing around 100 horses.
They still segregated horses back then, too. It was a different time.
The majority of those deaths were thanks to one man: B. Reeves Eason. He was the second unit director in charge of the chariot race and seemed to have a real vendetta against horses. When an animal had a problem, instead of getting treatment from a vet it, he'd just shoot it instead. Worst of all, most of those horses were killed during the disastrous yearlong shoot in Italy, of which almost none of the original footage made it into the final movie.
The race was shot again in America, this time with much fewer animal fatalities, although the crash at the very end of the race is real and resulted in five horse deaths alone.
But before you accuse Ben-Hur of being one of the bloodiest film productions in history, Casablanca director Michael Curitz created a movie in 1936 called The Charge of the Light Brigade that was responsible for so many horse deaths that people stopped counting.
"Here's looking at horse carnage, kid."
In the scene depicting the charge for which the movie was named, the battlefield was strewn with trip wires. When the director shouted, "Bring on the empty horses," meaning the horses without riders, the handlers sent them all sprinting full speed toward their doom. At least 25 were killed, although some people claim the figure was as high as 200. If you're wondering what kind of monster could be so careless with the life of those animals, then you may not be surprised to learn that the scene was organized by the film's second unit director, one B. Reeves Eason, the same man who was by that point famous for killing as many horses as anyone would let him.
"This is the touching scene where a guy puts a horse out of its misery. No, it won't be in the final cut."
The numerous animal deaths forced Congress to look at animal abuse in film for the first time. Its star Errol Flynn later asserted in his autobiography that it was he who complained to the ASPCA.
Due to the use of trip wires and many animal deaths, Charge of the Light Brigade has never been rereleased by Warner Bros., although the scene has managed a second life as raw material for Iron Maiden's music video for "The Trooper." See, horses? It was all worth it after all.
But it's viewed with a rose-tinted lens, so we don't feel anything anymore.
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Uncertain Principles: 7 essential elements of QM
Sorry but I can't be made plainer than that in English. The link has been provided by @user26143 , the copy by @DeerHunter .
In a rather concise manner, Shankar describes four postulates of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics.
I. The state of the particle is represented by a vector $|\Psi(t)\rangle$ in a Hilbert space.
II. The independent variables $x$ and $p$ of classical mechanics are represented by Hermitian operators $X$ and $P$ with the following matrix elements in the eigenbasis of $X$
$$\langle x|X|x'\rangle = x \delta(x-x')$$
$$\langle x|P|x' \rangle = -i\hbar \delta^{'}(x-x')$$
The operators corresponding to dependent variable $\omega(x,p)$ are given Hermitian operators
$$\Omega(X,P)=\omega(x\rightarrow X,p \rightarrow P)$$
III. If the particle is in a state $|\Psi\rangle$, measurement of the variable (corresponding to) $\Omega$ will yield one of the eigenvalues $\omega$ with probability $P(\omega)\propto |\langle \omega|\Psi \rangle|^{2}$. The state of the system will change from $|\Psi \rangle$ to $|\omega \rangle$ as a result of the measurement.
IV. The state vector $|\Psi(t) \rangle$ obeys the Schrödinger equation
$$i\hbar \frac{d}{dt}|\Psi(t)\rangle=H|\Psi(t)\rangle$$
where $H(X,P)=\mathscr{H}(x\rightarrow X, p\rightarrow P)$ is the quantum Hamiltonian operator and $\mathscr{H}$ is the Hamiltonian for the corresponding classical problem.
After that, Shankar discusses the postulates and the differences between quantum mechanics and classical mechanics, hopefully in plain english. Probably you want to take a look at that book: Principles of Quantum Mechanics
There are, of course, other sets of equivalent postulates.
Here are some ways of looking at it for an absolute beginner. It is only a start. It is not the way you will finally look at it, but there is nothing actually incorrect here.
First, plain English just won't do, you are going to need some math. Do you know anything about complex numbers? If not, learn a little more before you begin.
Second, in quantum mechanics, we don't work with probabilities, you know, numbers between 0 and 1 that represent the likelihood of something happening. Instead we work with the square root of probabilities, called "probability amplitudes", which are complex numbers. When we are done, we convert these back to probabilities. This is a fundamental change; in a way the complex number amplitudes are just as important as the probabilities. The logic is therefore different from what you are used to.
Third, in quantum mechanics, we don't imagine that we know all about objects in between measurements, rather we know that we don't. Therefore we only focus on what we can actually measure, and possible results of a particular measurement. This is because some of the assumed imagined properties of objects in between measurements contradict one another, but we can get a theory where we can always work with the measurements themselves in a consistent way. Any measurement (meter reading, etc.) or property in between measurements has only a probability amplitude of yielding a given result, and the property only co-arises with the measurement itself.
Fourth, if we have several mutually exclusive possibilities, the probability amplitude of either one or the other happening is just the sum of the probability amplitudes of each happening. Note that this does not mean that the probabilities themselves add, the way we are used to classically. This is new and different.
If we add up the probabilities (not the amplitudes this time but their "squares") of all possible mutually exclusive measurements, gotten by "squaring" the probability amplitudes of each mutually exclusive possibilities, we always get 1 as usual. This is called unitarity.
This is not the whole picture, but it should help somewhat. As a reference, try looking at three videos of some lectures that Feynman once gave at Cornell. That should help more.
I don't really understand exactly what you mean with assumptions, but I guess you ask about the physical nature and behavior of the quantistic world. I am going to be very inaccurate in the following writing, but I need some space to get things understood. What you are going to read is a harsh simplification.
The first assumption is the fact that particles at the quantistic level don't have a position, like real-life objects, they don't even have a speed. Well, they sort of have it, but in reality they are "fuzzy". Fuzzy in the sense that you cannot really assign a position to them, or a speed.
To be fair, you perfectly know a real-world case scenario where you have to give up the concepts of speed and position for an entity. Take a guitar, and pluck a string. Where is the "vibration" ? Can you point at one specific point in the string where the "vibration" is, or how fast this vibration is traveling. I guess you would say that the vibration is "on the string" or "in the space between one end of the string, and the other hand". However, there are parts of the string that are vibrating more, and parts that are not vibrating at all, so you could rightfully say that a larger part of the "vibration" is in the center of the string, a smaller part is on the lateral parts close to the ends, and no vibration is at the very ends. In some sense, you will experience higher "presence" of the vibration in the center.
With electrons, it's exactly the same. Think "electron" as "vibration" in the previous example. Soon, you will realize that you cannot really claim anything about the position of an electron, for the fact that has wave nature. You are forced to see the electron not as a charged ball rolling here and there, but as a diffuse entity totally similar to the concept of "vibration". As a result, you cannot say anything about the position of an electron, but you can claim that there are zones in the space where the electron has "higher presence" and zones that have "smaller presence". These zones are probabilistic in nature, and this probability is directly obtained by a mathematical description called the wavefunction.
The wavefunction mainly depends on the external potential, meaning that the presence of charges, such as protons and other electrons, will affect the perceived potential and will have an effect on the probability distribution in space of an electron.
A second assumption is the mapping between physical quantities (such as energy, or momentum) and quantistic operators. Take for example the momentum of an everyday object: it is given by its mass times its speed. In the quantistic world, you don't really have the concept of position, hence you don't have the concept of speed, hence you have to reinterpret the whole thing in terms of probability (rememeber the string ?), which means that what you have about a quantistic object is its wavefunction, and you have to extract the information about the momentum from this wavefunction. How do you do it ?
Well, there's a dogma in quantum mechanics, that if you apply a magic "operator" to the wavefunction, it gives you the quantity you want. There are (simple) rules to generate these operators, and you can apply them to a wavefunction to query the momentum, or the total energy, the kinetic energy and so on.
Dirac seems to have thought that the most fundamental assumption of Quantum Mechanics is the Principle of Superposition I read somewhere, perhaps an obituary, that he began every year his lecture course on QM by taking a piece of chalk, placing it on the table, and saying, now I paraphrase:
One possible state of the piece of chalk is that it is here. Another possible state is that it is over there (pointing to another table). Now according to Quantum Mechanics, there is another possible state of the chalk in which it is partly here, and partly there.
In his book he explains more about what this « partly » means: it means that the properties of a piece of chalk that is partly in state 1 (here) and partly in state 2 (there), are in between the properties of state 1 and state 2.
EDIT: I find I have compiled the basic explanations given by Dirac in the first edition of his book. Unfortunately, it is relativistic, but I am not going to re-type it all.
« we must consider the photons as being controlled by waves, in some way which cannot be understood from the point of view of ordinary mechanics. This intimate connexion between waves and particles is of very great generality in the new quantum mechanics. ...
« The waves and particles should be regarded as two abstractions which are useful for describing the same physical reality. One must not picture this reality as containing both the waves and particles together and try to construct a mechanism, acting according to classical laws, which shall correctly describe their connexion and account for the motion of the particles.
« Corresponding to the case of the photon, which we say is in a given state of polarizationn when it has been passed through suitable polarizing apparatus, we say that any atomic system is in a given state when it has been prepared in a given way, which may be repeated arbitrarily at will. The method of preparation may then be taken as the specification of the state. The state of a system in the general case then includes any information that may be known about its position in space from the way in which it was prepared, as well as any information about its internal condition.
« We must now imagine the states of any system to be related in such a way that whenever the system is definitely in one state, we can equally well consider it as being partly in each of two or more other states. The original state must be regarded as the result of a kind of superposition of the two or more new states, in a way that cannnot be conceived on classical ideas.
« When a state is formed by the superposition of two other states, it will have properties that are in a certain way intermediate between those of the two original states and that approach more or less closely to those of either of them according to the greater or less `weight' attached to this state in the superposition process.
« We must regard the state of a system as referring to its condition throughout an indefinite period of time and not to its condition at a particular time, ... A system, when once prepared in a given state, remains in that state so long as it remains undisturbed.....It is sometimes purely a matter of convenience whether we are to regard a system as being disturbed by a certain outside influence, so that its state gets changed, or whether we are to regard the outside influence as forming a part of and coming in the definition of the system, so that with the inclusion of the effects of this influence it is still merely running through its course in one particular state. There are, however, two cases when we are in general obliged to consider the disturbance as causing a change in state of the system, namely, when the disturbance is an observation and when it consists in preparing the system so as to be in a given state.
« With the new space-time meaning of a state we need a corresponding space-time meaning of an observation. [, Dirac has not actually mentioned anything about `observation' up to this point...]
In plain English: Quantum physics is the realization that probabilities are Pythagorean quantities that evolve linearly.
That's it. All the rest is detail.
See slides 5-7 in Scott Aaronson's presentation: here.


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Hi I'm trying to find a way to ensure deadlines inputted are later than the current time and date. Currently I'm attempting this with a rule.
CREATE OR REPLACE RULE "DeadlineInput" AS
ON INSERT TO "ComLog"
WHERE new."Deadline" < now() DO INSTEAD SELECT "ThrowError"('New deadline must be after current time'::bpchar) AS "ThrowError";
COMMENT ON RULE "DeadlineInput" ON "ComLog" IS 'Ensures deadline input is after the current time.';
I'm using a separate function to try to throw an error as when I tried to do it within the Rule it failed as the language was wrong. The following is my function.
-- Function: "ThrowError"(character)
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CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION "ThrowError"("ErrorString" text)
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Learn to use pen and paper for all they're worth. Make beautiful words. We'll start with basics of pen use and introductions to calligraphic scripts. In later classes we can make our own cola pens, 3D print letters, or laser-cut a letterpress font. Would you like to help design a NoiseBridge font?
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ANSONIA — Nolan Field is getting back to normal just three weeks after vandals wrecked the grass area, costing an estimated $15,000 in damage. Ansonia Mayor James Della Volpe said Tuesday that the field had been ripped up and resodded on Aug. 3.
"We're keeping everyone off the field until the middle of September," said Della Volpe, who creditted Mike Schryver, the superintendent of Ansonia Public Works and his eight-person crew, along with an outside contractor, Aqua-Turf Irrigation of Orange.
"They were able to re-sod the field in one day," said Della Volpe. "They did a great job of saving the field. The field looks great. We have to water it every day."
The Chargers' football team practices on the adjacent parcel near the baseball field, which wasn't damaged. The Chargers need to play all three of their scimmages away at Notre Dame-West Haven at Veteran's Field (Aug. 28, 3:30 p.m.); West Haven High (Aug. 31, 6 p.m.); and Shelton High (Sept. 6, 6 p.m.).
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The Ansonia youth football teams also have to play games away until the field is deemed playable, according to Della Volpe.
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