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		<title>Representation Error in Python</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2007 04:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Representation error refers to fact that some (most, actually) decimal fractions cannot be represented exactly as binary (base 2) fractions. This is the chief reason why Python (or Perl, C, C++, Java, Fortran, and many others) often won&#8217;t display the exact decimal number you expect: 
&#62;&#62;&#62; 0.1
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p><font face="Times New Roman"><em>Representation error</em> refers to fact that some (most, actually) decimal fractions cannot be represented exactly as binary (base 2) fractions. This is the chief reason why Python (or Perl, C, C++, Java, Fortran, and many others) often won&#8217;t display the exact decimal number you expect: </font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman">&gt;&gt;&gt; 0.1</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman">0.10000000000000001</font><font face="Times New Roman">Why is that? 1/10 is not exactly representable as a binary fraction. Almost all machines today use  floating point arithmetic, and almost all platforms map Python floats to &#8220;double precision&#8221;.  doubles contain 53 bits of precision, so on input the computer strives to convert 0.1 to the closest fraction it can of the form </font><var><span style="color:black;"><font face="Times">J</font></span></var><font face="Times New Roman">/2**</font><var><span style="color:black;"><font face="Times">N</font></span></var><font face="Times New Roman"> where </font><var><span style="color:black;"><font face="Times">J</font></span></var><font face="Times New Roman"> is an integer containing exactly 53 bits. Rewriting </font></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt;color:darkblue;font-family:'Courier New';">1 / 10 ~= J / (2**N)</span><span style="color:black;"><font face="Times New Roman">as </font></span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:darkblue;font-family:'Courier New';">J ~= 2**N / 10 </span><span style="color:black;"><font face="Times New Roman">and recalling that </font></span><var><span style="color:black;"><font face="Times">J</font></span></var><span style="color:black;"><font face="Times New Roman"> has exactly 53 bits (is </font></span><code><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;">&gt;= 2**52</span></code><span style="color:black;"><font face="Times New Roman"> but </font></span><code><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;">&lt; 2**53</span></code><span style="color:black;"><font face="Times New Roman">), the best value for </font></span><var><span style="color:black;"><font face="Times">N</font></span></var><span style="color:black;"><font face="Times New Roman"> is 56: </font></span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:darkblue;font-family:'Courier New';">&gt;&gt;&gt; 2**52</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:darkblue;font-family:'Courier New';">4503599627370496L</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:darkblue;font-family:'Courier New';">&gt;&gt;&gt; 2**53</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:darkblue;font-family:'Courier New';">9007199254740992L</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:darkblue;font-family:'Courier New';">&gt;&gt;&gt; 2**56/10</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:darkblue;font-family:'Courier New';">7205759403792793L </span><span style="color:black;"><font face="Times New Roman">That is, 56 is the only value for </font></span><var><span style="color:black;"><font face="Times">N</font></span></var><span style="color:black;"><font face="Times New Roman"> that leaves </font></span><var><span style="color:black;"><font face="Times">J</font></span></var><span style="color:black;"><font face="Times New Roman"> with exactly 53 bits. The best possible value for </font></span><var><span style="color:black;"><font face="Times">J</font></span></var><span style="color:black;"><font face="Times New Roman"> is then that quotient rounded: </font></span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:darkblue;font-family:'Courier New';">&gt;&gt;&gt; q, r = divmod(2**56, 10)</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:darkblue;font-family:'Courier New';">&gt;&gt;&gt; r</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:darkblue;font-family:'Courier New';">6L </span><span style="color:black;"><font face="Times New Roman">Since the remainder is more than half of 10, the best approximation is obtained by rounding up: </font></span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:darkblue;font-family:'Courier New';">&gt;&gt;&gt; q+1</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:darkblue;font-family:'Courier New';">7205759403792794L </span><span style="color:black;"><font face="Times New Roman">Therefore the best possible approximation to 1/10 in  double precision is that over 2**56, or </font></span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:darkblue;font-family:'Courier New';">7205759403792794 / 72057594037927936. <span style="color:gray;"></span></span><span style="color:black;"><font face="Times New Roman">Note that since we rounded up, this is actually a little bit larger than 1/10; if we had not rounded up, the quotient would have been a little bit smaller than 1/10. But in no case can it be <em>exactly</em> 1/10! </font></span><span style="color:black;"><font face="Times New Roman">So the computer never &#8220;sees&#8221; 1/10: what it sees is the exact fraction given above, the best  double approximation it can get: </font></span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:darkblue;font-family:'Courier New';">&gt;&gt;&gt; .1 * 2**56</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:darkblue;font-family:'Courier New';">7205759403792794.0 .</span><span style="color:black;"><font face="Times New Roman">If we multiply that fraction by 10**30, we can see the (truncated) value of its 30 most significant decimal digits: </font></span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:darkblue;font-family:'Courier New';">&gt;&gt;&gt; 7205759403792794 * 10**30 / 2**56</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:darkblue;font-family:'Courier New';">100000000000000005551115123125L </span><span style="color:black;"><font face="Times New Roman">meaning that the exact number stored in the computer is approximately equal to the decimal value 0.100000000000000005551115123125. Rounding that to 17 significant digits gives the 0.10000000000000001 that Python displays (well, will display on any conforming platform that does best-possible input and output conversions in its C library</font></span><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></p>
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		<title>Standout Man</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 08:31:57 +0000</pubDate>
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I regret for having a wrong opinion for this man over a long period. Any leader who is not in sync with the law of the state is more accountable to the people rather than a mainstream siyase debauch. Separatists sell name of the people to the supporing(funding agencies). When other chors/ renegades(Moulvi Farooq, Yaseen [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raashidmalik.wordpress.com&blog=265831&post=21&subd=raashidmalik&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p style="margin:0;" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://raashidmalik.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/geelani.jpg" title="geelani.jpg"><img src="http://raashidmalik.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/geelani.thumbnail.jpg" alt="geelani.jpg" /></a></font></p>
<p style="margin:0;" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman">I regret for having a wrong opinion for this man over a long period. Any leader who is not in sync with the law of the state is more accountable to the people rather than a mainstream siyase debauch. Separatists sell name of the people to the supporing(funding agencies). When other chors/ renegades(Moulvi Farooq, Yaseen Malik, Bilal Lone, Shabir Shah and hell lot of others) are preparing to sell precious lives of kashmiris for their own long term political mileage, there is still one man who is not compromising with his consciousness i.e Mr. Geelani. I hold this person in highest esteem for his sheer determination and grit to fight for the cause which is so dear to me.</font></p>
<p style="margin:0;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><a href="http://thinkexist.com/quotation/all_the_great_things_are_simple-and_many_can_be/194002.html"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;"><font face="Arial">All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: <span>freedom</span>; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope</font></span></a></span></strong></p>
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		<title>WHY EMPLOYEES LEAVE ORGANISATIONS</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2007 08:58:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every company faces the problem of people leaving the company for better pay or profile.
The answer lies in one of the largest studies undertaken by the Gallup Organization. The study surveyed over a million employees and 80,000 managers and was published in a book called &#8220;First Break All the Rules&#8221;. It came up with this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raashidmalik.wordpress.com&blog=265831&post=17&subd=raashidmalik&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p style="margin:0;" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman">Every company faces the problem of people leaving the company for better pay or profile.<br />
The answer lies in one of the largest studies undertaken by the Gallup Organization. The study surveyed over a million employees and 80,000 managers and was published in a book called &#8220;First Break All the Rules&#8221;. It came up with this surprising finding: </font><strong><span style="color:red;"><br />
</span></strong><font face="Times New Roman"><span>If you&#8217;re losing good people, look to their <u>immediate boss</u>. Immediate boss is the reason people stay and thrive in an organization. And he’s the reason why people leave. When people leave they take knowledge, experience and contacts with them, straight to the competition.<strong> </strong></span><br />
&#8220;People leave managers not companies&#8221;<br />
Mostly manager drives people away?<br />
HR experts say that of all the abuses, employees find <u>humiliation</u> the most intolerable. The first time, an employee may not leave, but a thought has been planted. The second time, that thought gets strengthened. The third time, he looks for another job.</p>
<p>When people cannot retort openly in anger, they do so by passive aggression. By digging their heels in and slowing down. By doing only what they are told to do and no more. By omitting to give the boss crucial information.<span>  </span>&#8220;If you work for a jerk, you basically want to get him into trouble. <strong>You don’t have your heart and soul in the job.</strong>&#8220;</p>
<p>Different managers can <u>stress out employees</u> in different ways &#8211; by being too controlling, too suspicious, too pushy, too critical, but they forget that workers are not fixed assets, they are free agents. When this goes on too long, an employee will quit &#8211; often over a trivial issue. </font><u><span style="color:red;"></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman">Talented men leave. Dead wood doesn&#8217;t.</font></span></u><font face="Times New Roman"> </font><strong><em></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman">&#8220;Jack Welch of GE once said. <u>A company&#8217;s value lies &#8220;between the ears of its employees&#8221;.</u></font></em></strong></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></p>
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		<title>Fake AJAX</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2007 08:33:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raashid Malik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are not comfortable with
AJAX, here is an alternative. The idea is you use
IE inter page transitions. Put these tags in the head of your html document.
&#60;META http-equiv="Page-Enter" content="blendTrans(Duration=0.2)"&#62;
&#60;META http-equiv="Page-Exit" content="blendTrans(Duration=0.2)"&#62;
Essentially what IE does is capture an image of the page before, and then
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p style="margin:0;" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman">If you are not comfortable with<br />
AJAX, here is an alternative. The idea is you use</font></p>
<p style="margin:6pt 0;" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman">IE inter page transitions. Put these tags in the head of your html document.</font></p>
<p><code><span style="color:#000044;font-family:'Times New Roman';">&lt;META http-equiv="Page-Enter" content="blendTrans(Duration=0.2)"&gt;</span></code><span style="color:#000044;"><br />
<code><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';">&lt;META http-equiv="Page-Exit" content="blendTrans(Duration=0.2)"&gt;</span></code></span><span></span></p>
<p style="margin:6pt 0;" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman">Essentially what IE does is capture an image of the page before, and then</font></p>
<p style="margin:6pt 0;" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman">Renders the new page in memory first to create a second image. It then uses DirectX to smoothly</font></p>
<p style="margin:6pt 0;" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman">Blend one image to another.</font></p>
<p style="margin:6pt 0;" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman">This simple trick alone gives you about 50% of the benefit of<br />
ajax,with a 1% of the effort.</font></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';">To get the full benefits of ajax,you will of course need to use<br />
ajax</span></p>
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		<title>NO BLOGGING</title>
		<link>http://raashidmalik.wordpress.com/2007/02/22/no-blogging/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:57:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raashid Malik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have not been blogging for the last 2 months and i will not do so for the next 2 weeks.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>I have not been blogging for the last 2 months and i will not do so for the next 2 weeks.</p>
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		<title>What Languages Mix</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2007 13:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raashid Malik</dc:creator>
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		<title>Hanging Afzal guru &#8211; A strategic move</title>
		<link>http://raashidmalik.wordpress.com/2006/10/14/hanging-afzal-guru-a-strategic-move/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Oct 2006 09:20:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raashid Malik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Musharraf says &#8220;In the line of fire&#8221; that there is a power that works above  government in both india and pakistan. I agree with this because the judicary in one of the biggest democracies works under the perview of that force especially when extending sentences to kashmiri&#8217;s. Everything that happens in kashmir is controlled and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raashidmalik.wordpress.com&blog=265831&post=12&subd=raashidmalik&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>Musharraf says &#8220;In the line of fire&#8221; that there is a power that works above  government in both india and pakistan. I agree with this because the judicary in one of the biggest democracies works under the perview of that force especially when extending sentences to kashmiri&#8217;s. Everything that happens in kashmir is controlled and coordinated by this force. This is the force which kills innocents, This is the force which creates sex scandals, This is the force which hangs kashmiri people. Let&#8217;s fight against this force and its accomplices.</p>
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		<title>Pluto &#8211; No more a planet</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Aug 2006 05:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ramalik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pluto has been classified as a dwarf planet now. Any celestial body that adhers to one of the following properties is treated as a dwarf planet:
1. Is in orbit around the sun  2. Has sufficient mass to assume a hydrostatic equilibrium.
3. Is not a sattelite of a plante 4. Has not &#8216;cleared the neighbourhood&#8217;
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>Pluto has been classified as a dwarf planet now. Any celestial body that adhers to one of the following properties is treated as a dwarf planet:</p>
<p>1. Is in orbit around the sun  2. Has sufficient mass to assume a hydrostatic equilibrium.</p>
<p>3. Is not a sattelite of a plante 4. Has not &#8216;cleared the neighbourhood&#8217;</p>
<p>This definition reclassified pluto from a planet to a dwarf planet because it has not <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearing_the_neighbourhood" title="Clearing the neighbourhood">cleared the neighbourhood</a> of its orbit.</p>
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		<title>Platform Vs Application(War is over)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2006 05:47:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ramalik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A &#8216;platform always beats an application&#8217; myth has been made irrelevant by open source community. In each of its past confrontations with rivals, Microsoft has successfully played the platform card, trumping even the most dominant applications. Windows allowed Microsoft to displace Lotus 1-2-3 with Excel, WordPerfect with Word, and Netscape Navigator with Internet Explorer.
This time, though, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raashidmalik.wordpress.com&blog=265831&post=10&subd=raashidmalik&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>A &#8216;platform always beats an application&#8217; myth has been made irrelevant by open source community. In each of its past confrontations with rivals, Microsoft has successfully played the platform card, trumping even the most dominant applications. Windows allowed Microsoft to displace Lotus 1-2-3 with Excel, WordPerfect with Word, and Netscape Navigator with Internet Explorer.</p>
<p>This time, though, the clash isn&#8217;t between a platform and an application, but between two platforms, each with a radically different business model: On the one side, a single software provider, whose massive installed base and tightly integrated operating system and APIs give control over the programming paradigm; on the other, a system without an owner, tied together by a set of protocols, open standards and agreements for cooperation.</p>
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