Handling of minus squared

I noticed this problem both with Excel and OpenOffice and now with Numbers as well.
I want to calculate a Gaussian function - exp(-(x-x0) ^ 2/w ^ 2)
All three programs apparently have the same parsing rules that interpret -(x-x0) ^ 2 such that the minus belongs to the number and it gets squared away to plus. Apparently -1*(x-x0) ^ 2 gets it right, but I think the program should be able to parse the shortcut convention correctly...
I know a lot of other people that had problems with that and spend hours debugging their spreadsheets.
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you cannot write BDC for transactions where controls are used.
you should search for a appropriate BAPI
something like BAPI_PROJECTDEF_CREATE
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Hi Everyone...
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Hi there
I'm not sure exactly why, but this goes back to the eHelp days. In their infinite wisdom, the developers decided that you would never ever want Plus Minus Squares unless you FIRST wanted Lines From Root!
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OT: MySQL...minus (-), decimals & display

I'm a little confused about using negative integers in a
MySQL database.
First, imagine a column with just three rows, with the
following values:
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If I create a database table field with the specs DECIMAL
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could save some time by asking someone who's already done
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> database table field with the specs DECIMAL 4,1
DECIMAL (4,1) will handle a range of values from -999.9 to
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Gordon,
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Firstly happy new year to all
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To Leon: Thanks for bringing that bit up. Appreciate the
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In the Microsoft HTML Help Workshop, the Single Click to open
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benirose wrote:
Thanks for your reply lance! I have a few responses if it's not too much trouble:None at all.
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That isn't obvious to me at all. Why do you need a switch?
I would assume you need a switch statement because you need to know what constructor to call, right? For example if you have Shape myShape, wouldn't you need to determine if you're instantiating that as a Square or Circle? I mean you could do it with if statements and not a switch, but you'd need to conditionalize (is that a word?!) the creation, correct?Presumably something has caused the need to instantiate a particular shape. Let's suppose that the action that caused it was that a user pressed a button on a GUI. Now presumably there is a button for a new circle and another button for a new square. Each of these buttons can have their own event handler. The event handler for the 'New Circle' button can instantiate a new circle (or call something else that does it) and the event handler for 'New Square' can instantiate a new square (or call something else that does it). Where does the conditional logic come in?
It could be that your user interface is a text based list of items to create, and the user has to type a number to choose. In this case, you might need to do some conditional logic, yes.
Of course there are times when context is not given or insufficient. Often at the fringes of systems, when interacting with other systems, you need to determine what kind of message you've been given before processing it. But even then, there are usually better ways than lots of conditional logic (dispatch tables, for example).
Having said all of that, I have worked on a system where a GUI had something like 150 different buttons / menu items / other things that could cause actions to occur. The original developer had decided to give each of these things a number so that he could save himself the bother of creating a new ActionListener or whatever for each item, and routed every action through the same switch statement to try to recover the information he'd just thrown away. Bizarre.
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You could use a visitor rather than doing a switch.
I don't really know much about the visitor class, but I'll give it a look.
I assume you mean 'from within a "domain model" class'. I think the bad practice you're referring to is the failure to separate model concerns from view concerns (or, more generally, the failure to separate the concerns of different domains).
Yeah, I suppose so. I just don't see many classes asking for it's own input, you usually pass it from the driver class. There's no editString() function which asks for input of a new string, you do that in the driver and then set the new string.Try not to think in terms of a 'driver'. This suggests procedural thinking. Think instead of a collaborating eco-system of objects where one object may delegate to another to do some work on it's behalf. The delegator may, when delegating, also give the delegate something that it might find useful to do its work (such as a means of obtaining data or something that it can further delegate some of the work to). If you do it right, the delegate only sees an abstraction appropriate to its place in the eco-system, behind which could exist any number of implementations. If you're just starting out, this may seem a bit heady. Don't worry about it, it'll come...
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I wouldn't necessarily do any of it this way; I'm only trying to address your question about Bridge. It probably is a good idea to go and talk to your professor again. If you do, come back here and tell us what he said...
Yeah, I'm not sure I'd do it this way either, but the assignment is a Survey taking program, and the basic implementation was to have an abstract Question class which has a two level inheritence tree of MultipleChoice, Essay, and Matching inheriting from Question, and TF, Short Answer, and Ranking inheriting from MC, Essay, and Matching respectively. So our Survey class would have a Vector of Questions, which is fine, but he said we couldn't do any conditioning to see what type of Question we have, and that we should just be able to make calls to abstract functions in Question that will handle everything.It sounds like he's trying to get you to put behaviour into the Question subclasses, rather than having it in the Survey (i.e. to do what I said above :-). This may feel a bit strange at first, and you might be saying to yourself 'I thought OO was supposed to model the real world, but a question doesn't do anything in the real world'. One of the core concepts in OO is that if you find yourself doing something to an object in the real world, then ask the object to do it for you in your model. That way, system intelligence gets distributed evenly throughout your model.
You do run into odd issues though. For example, in a library, suppose you have a book and a bookshelf. Supposing the book has just been returned to the library, should the book now goBackToShelf(), or should the shelf receiveBook(). It might even be both under some circumstances. It could also be neither, if you decide that a Librarian is part of your model. But be careful about doing that. You could get all of your behaviour concentrated in the Librarian with everything else in the system being dumb containers of data (some might argue that would be a good thing).
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On a side note, I know if you type a variable with the abstract class (E.G. Question) and then instantiate it as an inherited class (E.G. MC), you can only make calls to the abstract functions (at least Eclipse tells me so). Is it the same way with an interface? What if my Question class wasn't abstract, then I should be fine, right?You can only make calls to the methods declared by Question and it's supertypes (it doesn't matter whether those methods are abstract or not). This is the same for interfaces and it would also be the same if Question was not abstract. The reason is that when you have a declaration like this
Question question;you are defining a variable called 'question' of type Question. The only things you can ask 'question' to do are those things that its type knows about, which are the methods declared by Question and it's supertypes. The fact that 'question' refers to an object of some subclass of Question doesn't matter. All that matters is the type of the variable, which is Question.
Regards,
Lance

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