I have now produced designs for two signs.

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index. … ent-970674

William

May I please?

Coruscating diamonds over a sable throw
As an Earth-placed metaphor to show
imagery of a view up high
from far beyond Earth's blue sky
Yet photons entangled far away
cause in our minds a bright display
From a time long ago from stars so bright
And yet they travel at the speed of light
So how long for them does the journey take
Until they such a graceful metaphor make

William

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-h … r-63158201

William

Hello Jack

Thank you for posting that.

William

It seemed to me, and still does, that the idea is that the left-hand side of the equation evaluated properly gives an answer of 5 factorial and that evaluated in the other way, which is usually regarded as incorrect but I think is how it would be evaluated in the MUMPS (also known as M) database language, is 5.

So if one generalizes that so that evaluated the right way gives an answer that is factorial of the answer evaluated the wrong way, one gets two simultaneous equations.

For answers of 5 factorial and 5 the values of p and q are 230 and 220 respectively.

Solving the two simultaneous equations so as to provide results for p and for q for a given value of n, gives the following.

p=2(n! - n)

q= 2(n! - 2n)

So, if n=1, p=0 and q=-2,

so the equation is

0 - (-2 x 0.5) = 1!

(0 - -2) x 0.5 = 1

If n=2, then p = 0 and q=-4

0 - (-4 x 0.5) = 2!

(0 - -4) x 0.5 = 2

If n=3, then p=6 and q = 0

6 - (0 x 0.5) = 3!

(6 - 0) x 0.5 = 3

If n=7, then p = 10066 and q = 10052

10066 - (10052 x 0.5) = 7!

(10066 - 10052) x 0.5 -= 7

William

A clip from a BBC broadcast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Jomxym2y1s

William

You posted about a new airship at around the time when I was thinking about writing that chapter. So if you had not done that it is very unlikely that an airship would have been included in the story.

This author note might be of interest.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/l … er_013.pdf

The whole novel with the author notes included is available at the following page.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/novel_plus.htm

The inclusion of the railway heritage centre in the novel was because of a line of thought that occurred to me when in the old forum a lady made a comment about my novel.

William

Something you posted in the old Serif Lounge influenced my writing of a chapter of my first novel.

Here is a link to the chapter. Do you know what you wrote that influenced my writing?

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/l … er_017.pdf

Other readers might like to try to think what GB wrote about in the old Serif Lounge that inspired part of what I wrote in that chapter?

William

Hello Albert

Smilies are earlier than emoji. Smilies are possibly now regarded as a subset of emoji.

Emoji started in the late 1990s in Japan. Initially they were thought of an entirely Japanese phenomen and it was decided not to encode them in Unicode.

Later, it was decided to encode in Unicode the emoji used in Japan for compatibility purposes so that a message encoded on one brand of smartphone could be read on a smartphone of another brand.

Somewhere along the way new emoji got encoded and it all took off in a way not initially thought of a text encoding standard being used.

But that is progress. New ideas, new directions.

You may find this of interest.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/e … t_MoMA.htm

There is a link in thar page to a MoMA web page.

William

Thank you for replying.

What I am wanting to know is whether there is anything such that anyone reading the DITE thread would become aware, from some link or reply or whatever or however Twitter does it in that thread, of André Schappo's thread. So that the DITE readers would become aware of his opinions ove the need to educate teachers about Unicode and its uses.

William