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Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 7:51 am
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Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 7:59 am
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Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 8:09 am
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Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 8:10 am
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Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 9:05 am
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Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 9:06 am
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Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 9:08 am
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Encino Man is a 1992 comedy, which was released in Europe as California Man, featuring actors Brendan Fraser, Sean Astin and Pauly Shore. The plot revolves around two teenagers from Encino, Los Angeles, California played by Sean Astin and Pauly Shore, who discover a caveman in their backyard frozen in a block of ice. The caveman, played by Brendan Fraser, has to adjust to 1990s life in high school and teaches them a thing or two about life. It was followed by a TV movie sequel, Encino Woman, in 1996.
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Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 9:16 am
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Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 10:27 am
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Warheads, also known as Mega Warheads, are a brand of sour candy manufactured by Impact Confections. The candy was invented in Taiwan in 1975 and was first imported to the United States by The Foreign Candy Company in 1993. They are currently distributed in the United States by Impact Confections and in Australia by Funtastic Limited. They proved to be very popular, especially with youths; in 1999, Warheads were referred to as a "$40 million brand." [1] Impact Confections acquired the brand in 2004.
Warheads derive their strong sour flavor from a combination of malic acid, ascorbic acid, and citric acid. These are applied as a coating to the outside of the small, hard candies. The intense sour flavor fades after about 20 to 50 seconds.
Warheads are marketed to children as an "extreme" candy. The name "Warhead" comes from the notion that the sour taste of the candies is akin to a real warhead going off in one's mouth, and the brand's mascot, Wally Warhead, is depicted as a boy with puckered lips and a small mushroom cloud eminating from the top of his head. A driving force behind the candy's popularity were informal competitions among schoolchildren to determine who could withstand eating the largest number of Warheads at once.[2]
A warning is now included on Warheads packaging, as follows:
WARNING: Eating multiple pieces within a short time period may cause a temporary irritation to sensitive tongues and mouths.
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Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 10:30 am
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Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 10:32 am
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Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 10:59 am
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Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 11:00 am
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What Are Floating Point Numbers?
There are several ways to represent real numbers on computers. Fixed point places a radix point somewhere in the middle of the digits, and is equivalent to using integers that represent portions of some unit. For example, one might represent 1/100ths of a unit; if you have four decimal digits, you could represent 10.82, or 00.01. Another approach is to use rationals, and represent every number as the ratio of two integers.
Floating-point representation - the most common solution - basically represents reals in scientific notation. Scientific notation represents numbers as a base number and an exponent. For example, 123.456 could be represented as 1.23456 × 102. In hexadecimal, the number 123.abc might be represented as 1.23abc × 162.
Floating-point solves a number of representation problems. Fixed-point has a fixed window of representation, which limits it from representing very large or very small numbers. Also, fixed-point is prone to a loss of precision when two large numbers are divided.
Floating-point, on the other hand, employs a sort of "sliding window" of precision appropriate to the scale of the number. This allows it to represent numbers from 1,000,000,000,000 to 0.0000000000000001 with ease.
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Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 11:02 am
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Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 11:04 am
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