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Monday, October 24, 2005 10:02 AM

Do you know everything about Factorials?

When I was in 7 th grade at Amity Junior High School in Orange Connecticut , I gave a presentation on Factorial numbers. Here’s some interesting code: FOR i = 1 TO 80 ?i,Factorial(i), SQRT ( 2 * PI ()*i)*(i/ EXP ( 1 ))^i ENDFOR PROCEDURE Factorial(n)
Posted by Calvin_Hsia | 3 Comments
Thursday, April 14, 2005 3:32 PM

Very Old Program

I was doing some spring cleaning and came across a computer printout of a program I wrote in August 1974, or about 31 years ago! That brings back a lot of memories. Coincidentally, a couple coworkers were discussing the CaSing of computer languages. What
Posted by Calvin_Hsia | 6 Comments
Friday, December 10, 2004 4:22 PM

Sending Christmas cards: Creating mailng labels automatically

A family member sent out an emergency email plea for help: I bought labels: Avery 8160, which have very clear instructions about how to enter names and addresses manually, but nothing about how to use data from an Excel file to do so. Avery.com tells
Posted by Calvin_Hsia | 13 Comments
Monday, October 18, 2004 12:03 PM

Is a process hijacking your machine?

Suppose there is a process on your machine that is hijacking your processor. Perhaps it’s in an infinite loop. Or perhaps you have no idea what a particular process is doing, and you’d like to find out. If you have a debugger installed, like Visual Studio,
Posted by Calvin_Hsia | 23 Comments
Tuesday, June 15, 2004 5:42 PM

Independence Day for blogging

Since July 4 th is nearing, I thought it would be appropriate to start my independent blog. In this first entry, I’ll add a few pointers to prior entries that I made to our VSData team blog. Solving a customer problem is my blog narrative describing an
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