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    I've actually been using that site as a reference...

    I've actually been using that site as a reference for some more basic function pointer stuff but didn't see anything directly related to typecasting. Does the callback/functor material actually...
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    Typecasting a void* to a function pointer

    Is there any way to do this?

    In a program I'm writing there is a class called "command", which is intended to be an element in a list of function calls; it is supposed to contain a pointer to a...
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    I was rejected because I sent my application in...

    I was rejected because I sent my application in two days after their Nov. 30 deadline (a month before any other college I applied to; and I hadn't even noticed), and they didn't even review it. It...
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    Perhaps - they do a great deal of missile and...

    Perhaps - they do a great deal of missile and rocket testing over at White Sands Missile Range; so I'm sure that if the military was interested in testing these jets, and this sort of launch method...
  5. Thread: ACT scores

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    Do you mean the city, or my university (Cornell)?...

    Do you mean the city, or my university (Cornell)? Ithaca is OK, I guess; not particularly eventful and hard to get around without a car... snows a lot, although I guess most of upstate is like that....
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    The maximum in any category is 36. The average...

    The maximum in any category is 36. The average is set to 21, so anything above that is at least decent if not great. A "good" score would be somewhere in the middle; maybe 29 or higher.
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    A self-replicating machine (most likely a...

    A self-replicating machine (most likely a nanomachine) developing some sort of mutation and reproducing out of control and destroying everything in its wake - like cancer, only on a global scale - ...
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    32/32/32/36 (33). That was three years ago,...

    32/32/32/36 (33).
    That was three years ago, though.
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    Sly Cooper Final Fantasy 10 Gamecube beats...

    Sly Cooper
    Final Fantasy 10

    Gamecube beats PS2 hands down, though.
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    It's clearly fake. The lack of clouds is...

    It's clearly fake. The lack of clouds is extremely suspicious but the day/night pattern is what seals it - notice that Northern Greenland, Iceland, and Norway are all illuminated. The Columbia...
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    I had that guy for my psychology professor last...

    I had that guy for my psychology professor last semester... yeah, he's pretty big into getting lots of sleep. He's probably right, too...
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    In common usage "contains" means that an object's...

    In common usage "contains" means that an object's components retain the characteristic properties they exhibit outside the system. Whatever composes a neutron does not have the characteristic...
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    I don't see why that's relevant. The evidence...

    I don't see why that's relevant. The evidence I described clearly demonstrates he neutron does not contain anything that remotely resembles a proton and an electron. The fact that it can decay to...
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    When the neutron was first proposed it was...

    When the neutron was first proposed it was theorized to be composed of a proton and an electron in close orbit. However, this has been rejected because

    (1) The neutron, proton, and electron all...
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    The depletion of hydrogen in the Sun's core...

    The depletion of hydrogen in the Sun's core causes its luminosity to increase somewhat, especially as it gets very low. In 1-2 billion years this process will become significant enough to increase...
  16. Thread: one billion

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    Nearly all scientific facilities, including NASA,...

    Nearly all scientific facilities, including NASA, use metric now. The problem, I think, was that the thruster component of the spacecraft had been contracted to a private company - Lockheed Martin...
  17. Thread: Clinton.

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    Poll: He won by one electoral vote, I think. We are...

    He won by one electoral vote, I think.

    We are the only country in the world that uses the electoral system. I guess places like France and Canada are governed by "mob rule"?
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    Poll: You are aware, I hope, that ozone deterioration...

    You are aware, I hope, that ozone deterioration and global warming are two completely unrelated issues? As in, they have nothing to do with each other? For that reason, I won't try to refute your...
  19. Thread: sin and cosin

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    A good way to investigate it would be through...

    A good way to investigate it would be through programming. For example try these test programs (susbstituting whatever your pixel drawing command is for putpixel.)



    float t;
    for (t = 0; t <...
  20. Thread: Math Help

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    According to Mathematica: ProductLog[z]...

    According to Mathematica:

    ProductLog[z] satisfies the differential equation dw/dz = w/(z(1+w)).

    It's approximately equal to x - x^2 + 3/2 x^3 - 8/3 x^4.

    There's apparently no way to solve...
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    I don't think that equation can be solved...

    I don't think that equation can be solved non-numerically. I have Mathematica, and it gave the answer as

    x = 5 - ProductLog[e^5]

    which doesn't say much more than the original equation. It...
  22. A couple misconceptions I'd like to clear up: ...

    A couple misconceptions I'd like to clear up:


    This is not correct, you are mixing up two theories. Dark matter is postulated based on at least four primary lines of evidence: the rotation of...
  23. Light does not have rest mass, though it does...

    Light does not have rest mass, though it does have "mass" associated with its energy (as usual, it depends on your definition of mass/energy). Its mass is not really the issue, though. Light...
  24. I suppose anything is possible with a big enough...

    I suppose anything is possible with a big enough sail, although it would take some pretty spectacular material to get big enough to provide that power without its own mass weighting it down. Just...
  25. Alpha Centauri is a multiple star system (three...

    Alpha Centauri is a multiple star system (three stars orbiting around each other) but has no known planets. Of course, we can only measure the largest planets; if the system had an Earth-like planet...
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