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Grid Speed

The Grid Speed Puzzle Image A puzzle in the March 2004 issue of Scientific American that piqued my fancy. I wrote a Perl script to explore some solutions, and as a result let myself get talked into writing a Java version for the web. Here is a version for Netscape 4.77, a version for Netscape 6 and above, and a version for M$IE. (I got it to work best on Netscape 4.77, not at all on Netscape 7.1 and flakey on M$IE. I think I need to get Java 1.4 for Netscape 7.1. I don't have much experience with Java, and so far, I don't think much of it. I hope you have better luck than I did.) Here is the source. Here is the very quick and dirty Perl version. GridSpeedApplet.java and gridspeed Perl script are both available under the GNU General Public License

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Horses in my field

My favorite sayings

My Autobiography

My trip to Spain and Portugal

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