Re: Rosetta: Babbage problem

2017-05-09 Thread Ethan Furman
On 05/09/2017 06:31 AM, bartc wrote: On 09/05/2017 13:56, Robert L. wrote: Bart (and anyone else who is tempted to respond to Robert L.), please do not respond to Robert L. He has been banned from Python List, so unless someone quotes him the ml people will not see it. Thank you. -- ~Ethan

Re: Rosetta: Babbage problem

2017-05-09 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 11:31 PM, bartc wrote: > On 09/05/2017 13:56, Robert L. wrote: Ignore Robert L. He doesn't even TRY to make his spam look like it belongs in this newsgroup. He is why killfiles exist. http://bofh.bjash.com/bofh/bsmh2.html (sadly, the original bofh.ntk.net has been down fo

Re: Rosetta: Babbage problem

2017-05-09 Thread bartc
On 09/05/2017 13:56, Robert L. wrote: Charles Babbage, looking ahead to the sorts of problems his Analytical Engine would be able to solve, gave this example: What is the smallest positive integer whose square ends in the digits 269,696? -- Babbage, letter to Lord Bowden, 1837; see Hollingdale a