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It is as we know (quotes from Wikipedia):
and of course
For instance, in "Ivor Horton's Beginning Visual C++ 2013 (Wrox)" we find on p. 55:
"It is very useful to define constants as const variables, particularly when you use the same constant several times in a program. For one thing, it is much better than sprinkling literals throughout your program that may not have blindingly obvious meanings; the value 42 could be referring to the meaning of life, the universe, and everything, but if you use a const variable with the name myAge that has a value of 42, it becomes obvious that you are not."
I have decided to dedicate part of my retirement to collect references like that. Deliberate ones as well as accidental (trivial) ones.
I can and I will of course search the net, but your contribution will be greatly appreciated, and may also perhaps be of interest to other watchers. I would appreciate if you would cite them as accurately as possible, and provide exact references, so I can find them. But don't sweat. Anything will do.
pibbur who was 42 22 years ago.
PS. Another one:
In the "Latex Document preparation system User's guide and Reference manual" by Leslie Lamport, we find on p 68:
"The \pageref command is similar to the \ref command except it produces the page number of the place in the text where the corresponding \label command appears".
Example: "See page ~\pageref {'meaning') for more details", which refers to the following content allegedly on p. 42: "The \label{'meaning'} meaning of life, the universe, and"
DS.
- the "third primary pseudoperfect number"
- the "only known value that is the number of sets of four distinct positive integers a, b, c, d, each less than the value itself, such that ab − cd, ac − bd, and ad − bc are each multiples of the value".
- the "smallest positive integer which is conjectured to be representable but which has yet to be represented as the sum of three cubes a³ + b³ + c³, where a, b, and c are integers"
- the atomic number of Molybdenium
- the Kepler number of "a red dwarf in the constellation Cygnus around which orbits the three smallest exoplanets found to date"
and of course
- the "Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything".
For instance, in "Ivor Horton's Beginning Visual C++ 2013 (Wrox)" we find on p. 55:
"It is very useful to define constants as const variables, particularly when you use the same constant several times in a program. For one thing, it is much better than sprinkling literals throughout your program that may not have blindingly obvious meanings; the value 42 could be referring to the meaning of life, the universe, and everything, but if you use a const variable with the name myAge that has a value of 42, it becomes obvious that you are not."
I have decided to dedicate part of my retirement to collect references like that. Deliberate ones as well as accidental (trivial) ones.
I can and I will of course search the net, but your contribution will be greatly appreciated, and may also perhaps be of interest to other watchers. I would appreciate if you would cite them as accurately as possible, and provide exact references, so I can find them. But don't sweat. Anything will do.
pibbur who was 42 22 years ago.
PS. Another one:
In the "Latex Document preparation system User's guide and Reference manual" by Leslie Lamport, we find on p 68:
"The \pageref command is similar to the \ref command except it produces the page number of the place in the text where the corresponding \label command appears".
Example: "See page ~\pageref {'meaning') for more details", which refers to the following content allegedly on p. 42: "The \label{'meaning'} meaning of life, the universe, and"
DS.
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