Re: Long division algorithm

From: Richard Heathfield (dontmail_at_address.co.uk.invalid)
Date: 12/27/03


Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 07:36:39 +0000 (UTC)

Tom St Denis wrote:
> "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net> wrote in message
> news:bsi8na$6i7$1@ngspool-d02.news.aol.com...
>> > "Arnold Stang" <stang13@anonymous.to> wrote...
>> >> Tom St. Denis is a disturbed youth who desperately needs help. I hope
>> >> someone at his community college can take him under his/her wing and
>> >> give him the counseling he needs. Sincerely.
>>
>> "Tom St Denis" <tomstdenis@iahu.ca> wrote...
>> > Tom St Denis contributions to the fields of CS, Math and Cryptography:
> A
>> > few. More the average poster.
>>
>> Truly delusional.
>
> Um and how are you not a troll?

troll: An individual who [...] regularly posts specious arguments, flames or
personal attacks to a newsgroup, discussion list, or in email for no other
purpose than to annoy someone or disrupt a discussion.

For the full entry, see http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/troll.html

Doug Gwyn is a language expert and a crypto expert. He is also the author of
three excellent chapters in the superb book "Software Solutions in C". He
has a *lot* of credibility. He regularly posts solid, common-sense
arguments in this newsgroup. And yet you insult him by calling him a troll.

I /can/ think of an individual who regularly posts specious arguments,
flames and personal attacks to this newsgroup, for no apparent purpose
other than to annoy or disrupt. But Doug Gwyn isn't that person.

See if you can guess who I mean.

> I never said my contributions were major and important.

And yet you think the OP would be better served by being referred to
LibTomCrypt rather than to Donald Knuth. Sheesh.

<snip>

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