[Info-vax] VMS process communication

[Dave Froble]

On 3/14/2023 6:41 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 3/14/2023 4:01 PM, Steven Schweda wrote:
>>> If you stop 100 random people on the street and ask about integers, then
>>> 99 won't have a clue what you are talking about.
>>
>>     99 might be high, but I'd guess at least 90.  Unless you choose the
>> street _very_ carefully.
>>
>>
>>> Those that remember their math should think of Z.
>>
>>     You can't remember what you never learned.  I live in a country where
>> store clerks can't make change for a dollar in their heads.  Back when I
>> commonly used cash, and wasn't feeling depressed enough, I could buy
>> something, hand over some bills, wait for the register to calculate the
>> change, and then hand over some coins to reduce the number of coins
>> returned.  And watch the puny-brain at the register suffer a complete
>> intellectual collapse.
>>
>>     So, no, I wouldn't expect 99% of "random people on the street" to
>> have any idea what an integer is.
>>
>>> The rest should vaguely remember that "numbers without decimals" are
>>> called integers.
>>
>>     "should" and "would" are spelled differently for a reason.
>>
>>     Thirty-odd years ago, on a business trip to California, I had
>> breakfast a few times at a Burger King in Fremont which was convenient
>> to the motel.  I was late enough to miss the morning rush, so I dealt
>> with the manager, who rang up the sale, entering the purchase total as
>> the amount tendered.  He then made change, correctly, using his head
>> rather than the register.  I was so thrilled by this performance that I
>> almost wrote a commendation letter to the company.  But I realized that
>> he was violating company policy, and decided not to risk getting him
>> reprimanded (or worse).
>>
>>     But he was an immigrant, not educated here.
>
> I would expect those that went through high school to
> know that:
>
> N = natural
> Z = integer
> Q = rational
> R = real
>
> and those that went through college in something STEM related
> to have heard of algebraic numbers, transcendental numbers and
> complex numbers.
>
> But maybe I have too high expectations.
>
> Arne
>

Perhaps.  What is a transcendental number?

And, I do have a BS in Math from the University of Pittsburgh.

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