Re: Irrational numbers

From: Mok-Kong Shen (mok-kong.shen_at_t-online.de)
Date: 11/04/03 

Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 19:32:45 +0100

Tom St Denis wrote:
>
> "Mok-Kong Shen" <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> wrote:

> >
> > Tom St Denis wrote:
> > >
> > > "Mok-Kong Shen" <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> wrote in message
> > > news:3FA7D29D.538A0E9D@t-online.de...
> > > > Giving some references (that one readily has at hand)
> > > > is big effort?????
> > >
> > > Ungrateful much?
> >
> > Don't know what you mean. Percival's posts gave the
> > impression that he knows very well of the algorithms
> > he mentioned. So he must have materials and references
> > readily at his hand. I requested him to give some good
> > references of good implementations or slse sketches that
> > help to do implementations. Sofar he hasn't answered.
> > So what's the point of yours above? Could you explain?
>
> He gave an inch, you took a mile.
>
> Colin has edged me before [e.g. faster mults in ltm]. He didn't actually
> write the routines for me [though he did explain them nicely]. Doesn't mean
> I don't still to this day thank him for the help [e.g. the manual has a
> thanks].
>
> Point being he listed the names of the algorithms. Go look on citeseer for
> papers on them and if you still can't implement them then maybe you
> shouldn't be inventing new crypto.

What the previous history you had with Percival doesn't
interest nor concern me. About informations, it is in
general a good social (group) behaviour (fairness,
kindness, generosity, etc.) to straightforwardly provide
these, as long as that doesn't cost anything (money or
time). If Percival didn't with his posts impressed me
that he knows the algorithms very well, I might eventually
have prodeeded otherwise. But as it is, I believe that he
is well acquainted with the stuff in question and hence
would be in a good and easy position to provide me a few
good pertinent references of the kind that I requested.
On the other hand, internet search results could sometimes
be difficult to filter to get the right stuff, unless one
already has sufficient prior knowledge in the specific
field being searched to adequately locate what is really
useful (and also appropriate for one's knowledge level)
from the generally large number of items returned from
the querry.

M. K. Shen

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