what do you get with 1 divide by 998001, interesting results

[Mark Lawrence]

On 21/08/2014 08:40, Everything You Need To Know wrote:
> On Thursday, 21 August 2014 16:55:44 UTC+9:30, Terry Reedy  wrote:
>> On 8/20/2014 11:36 AM, Everything You Need To Know wrote:
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>>> Neat little exercise, surprisingly cool results!
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>>> less than 3 minutes!
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>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlDjl5JK0eU&feature=youtu.be
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>> Dear EYNToK (Adam Nowak?, the name on the video?): I am both a long-term
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>> participant in this group and currently one of the behind-the-scenes
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>> moderators. Here are the mistakes you made.
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>> 0. You posted from Google Groups.
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>> 0a. GG is the source of at least half the spam targeted at python-list,
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>> including the stuff that gets caught and discarded by me or another
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>> moderator.  Google gives the appearance of being indifferent to being
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>> spam source #1. Or maybe they see it as a mark of success somehow.
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>> 0b. By default, GG does not follow normal and reasonable protocols.
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>> Google is obviously indifferent to that. At one time in the past, Google
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>> would have been cut off from usenet groups for GG's behavior. Now Google
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>> is too big and powerful and hence arrogant.
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>> 0c. Some posters, when requested, change the defaults as requested and
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>> instructed. Some do not, thereby asking to be ignored.
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>> 1. A pseudonym, but not just a pseudonym, but one that could be
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>> interpreted as intentionally obnoxious and 'in our faces', such as used
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>> by trolls.  I realize that as a newcomer, you don't know the history,
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>> but it affects people who have been around awhile.
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>> 2. Slightly deceptive subject line, to your detriment. The video is
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>> about simulating indefinite precision long division with python. This is
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>> a quite legitimate beginner exercise. The 1/998001 example is just an
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>> illustration of the value of being able to get more than 18 decimal digits.
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>> 3. The form of your post! It screams 'I am spam!' Judgment in 3 seconds!
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>> In sum, if this post had been presented to me by the spam filter for
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>> action, and I had acted without viewing the video, especially late at
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>> night when tired, I might have deleted it.
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>> Having watched the video, I now know that would have been a mistake. As
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>> Steven said, properly formatted occasional announcements of free
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>> python-related resources are on-topic. (If we got multiple such
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>> announcements every day, we might change the rules.) I agree with the
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>> rest of his excellent post.
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>> --
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>> Terry Jan Reedy
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> Well said
>

Glad to see that you took it on board.  Except that you're still using 
google groups.  I'm not interested in trying to read posts when they're 
in the appalling formatting above.  Please take steps to rectify the 
situation or go away, your choice.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence