User talk:GryByteman

I've made a major edit to some text you added to the Star Trek article. The text appears to refer to a magazine article? If that's correct, can you provide a complete cite to the article? Maury Markowitz (talk) 20:26, 25 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your edit to Order of operations...[edit]

... was reverted with a reason given of "unsourced addition". To be more thorough, the table you edited was specifically the precedence (or order of operations) in the C language. And in C, there is no operator for "exponentiation" as you suggested. To do this you use the library function pow(). See C mathematical functions. Dhrm77 (talk) 04:19, 26 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Since the article title is "Order of Operations", and since students searching for more examples of how PEMDAS fits into the larger "OoO", might I suggest that exponentiation at least be mentioned as an example of a function on that line.

Remember, this page was not written for C programmers, it was written for people searching for examples of the expanded Order of Operations, and some people won't know for sure that exponentiation is a function.

I didn't know for sure (though I suspected it), and I've been a programmer for almost five decades. FORTRAN '69, COBOL '71, RPG '76, BASIC '77, and a few other languages, usually similar to BASIC, like TI calculator or HP calculator languages. Originally, I thought in FORTRAN, so at first when getting the TRS-80 Model One, I thought in FORTRAN and translated into BASIC, but soon started thinking in BASIC. The others are forgotten now, but I still play with BASIC for fun.

I don't remember the commands for exponentiation in the other languages, but as I mentioned, in my current BASICs, ^ represents exponentiation.

It just makes sense to me that since most students learn PEMDAS, it should be listed in longer lists. Another site that omitted it thought it was a good idea to add that list, so I will refer to their site as a source the next time I seek to include an example of the longer and more specific Order of Operations. GryByteman (talk) 23:20, 26 June 2016 (UTC) John M.S. Education, 1979 B.S. Management, 1974 Member, Triple Nine Society[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest[edit]

Hello, GryByteman. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Dave Letterfly Knoderer, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for article subjects for more information. We ask that you:

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. S0091 (talk) 17:38, 6 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi GryByteman, adding the photo was fine and you were clear in your edit summaries you had a COI which is great but you also need to make the declaration on your User page. If you need help making the declaration, just let me know and I will be happy to do that for you. I did move the article back to draft because it was woefully under-sourced and, as it stands now, does not meet the notability criteria. You can find it as Draft:Dave Letterfly Knoderer. While it is still in draft, you are welcome to make improvements. Where you need to be very careful is in mainspace (article) as usually you will need to make edit requests. S0091 (talk) 17:59, 6 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]