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Working with units
04-06-2017, 05:52 AM
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RE: Working with units
Hello,

>> add 1 to 3_m
This hits into one of the major issue between math and computer science, human language and computers.
Both math and human language are littered with non explicit-ed, contextually shared assumptions/understanding and loosely defined "items" (sometimes, even symbols/words like plus or minus have different meanings than the basic addition/subtraction ones)
In the (rare) cases where there is a possible misunderstanding, then we see human using convoluted sentences to explicit their words...
Unfortunately, the calculator does not have enough IA to deduce these "non explicit-ed, contextually shared assumptions/understanding" which would allow it to deduce what is meant by a user. It therefore forces you, the user, to explicitly state them, at the cost of extra typing time...
One of the best example is users entering in the graphing app:
F1(X)=sin(X)
F2(X)=dF1(X)/dX
and not understanding why it does not work...


>> "If God had wanted us to use the Metric system, Jesus would've had 10 apostles"
Now, this is such a quintessentially American statement that I had to clean all the coffee from my screen after reading it!

Cyrille

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Working with units - tdh79 - 04-05-2017, 04:40 PM
RE: Working with units - KeithB - 04-05-2017, 04:45 PM
RE: Working with units - tdh79 - 04-05-2017, 05:36 PM
RE: Working with units - KeithB - 04-05-2017, 05:43 PM
RE: Working with units - tdh79 - 04-05-2017, 06:21 PM
RE: Working with units - Han - 04-05-2017, 07:35 PM
RE: Working with units - Tim Wessman - 04-05-2017, 07:58 PM
RE: Working with units - tdh79 - 04-05-2017, 08:09 PM
RE: Working with units - Claudio L. - 04-07-2017, 02:25 PM
RE: Working with units - KeithB - 04-05-2017, 06:34 PM
RE: Working with units - toml_12953 - 04-05-2017, 07:37 PM
RE: Working with units - cyrille de brébisson - 04-06-2017 05:52 AM
RE: Working with units - klesl - 04-06-2017, 07:09 AM



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