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Factorials

This program, like exponentiation, is another follow-on from the one that can multiply large numbers together. Here, you can calculate the factorial of a number. This is the product of all the numbers from 1 up to and including the number. A factorial is denoted by adding an exclamation mark after the number. One practical […]

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Feeling Geeky

Exponentiation

This program is something of a follow-on from the one that can multiply large numbers together. Here, you can calculate one integer (whole number) to the power of a number. By this, I mean you can multiply one number by itself, another number of times. For example, 6 to the power of 5, which is […]

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Feeling Geeky

Multiplying big numbers

This little program is designed to emulate the feats of a small number of people who can multiply large numbers, including those much bigger than what a pocket calculator can display, in their heads.

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Feeling Geeky

The day for a given date

The inspiration behind this little program is a girl that I used to go to school with, and if you give her a certain date, she will tell you what day of the week that date falls on. This is a Javascript program to do just that. Enter the date in the boxes below, click […]

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Feeling Geeky

Teamwork

Let me start with an often-quoted acronym: TEAM = Together Everyone Achieves More. What is it? One definition of teamwork would be the collaborative effort of a team to achieve a common goal or to complete a task in the most effective and efficient way. In other words, it is an approach to the completion of a […]

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Employment

Networking

Whether or know it or not, we have obtained experience with networking one way or another ever since starting school. Read on so that you will see what I’m talking about. Circles of friends It’s very likely that during the years when you went to school, of all your classmates, there were about 5-6 friends […]

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Employment

Getting the Job

Applying for the Job When you’re looking for a job, you know the drill. You would be likely to search for vacancies by browsing newspapers, or by going online to job advertising sites like monster.com or indeed.com. When you find a job that seems appealing to you, you prepare a covering letter or e-mail, and […]

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Employment

Attitude

I have come across many a situation, both when I witness it first hand, and when I read up or hear about it in various media, how attitude influences the outcome of what people do, or are aiming or striving to do. What is attitude? Before we go any further, I think I should look […]

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Employment

Social Interaction

Like most people with AS, social interaction is not one of my fortes. It is not as if I want to avoid socialising altogether. A lot of my free time would be spent on going for walks on my own, or doing window-shopping – wandering around some shops, often with no intention whatsoever of buying […]

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Traits

What if I didn’t have AS?

Over the past few years I have been pondering on what life would have been like for me had I not had AS. One thing that springs to mind is a programme I watched recently on the History Channel, entitled “Britain’s Real Monarch”, first aired on Channel 4 in 2004. The reason I am mentioning […]

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