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RPI 2011-12 Part V: Don't Stop Believing

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FlagDUDE08 said:
I saw this on my facebook feed. It's really nice that the athletes are fostering a relationship with the community. Has this sort of thing happened often?
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In recent years there have been a lot of posts of various instances of community service by the team.
 
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FreshFish said:
It is basically a brute force, trial-and-error method. You insert a number into a formula, compare the formula result to the desired result; then keep changing the original number until the formula result matches the desired result within the level of tolerance.

Which translated into English means, rather than solve for the square root, you instead take x * x and compare the result to your starting number:

Suppose you want the square root of 144.

(a) start with x = 10, you get 10 x 10 = 100 which is < 144 so increase 10.
(b) Try 11, you get 11 x 11 = 121 < 144, so increase 11.
(c) Try 13 you get 13 x 13 = 169 > 144, so decrease 13
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. etc etc etc until eventually you get to x = 12 and you get 12 x 12 = 144 = 144 and so you stop.

It is ugly and inelegant and it works by using raw processing power.

It's ironic, when I used to use a slide rule I would spend more time figuring out where to put the decimal place than I did in solving for the number itself. I probably still have my table of logarithms book in storage somewhere. When the EMP hits I'll be scrambling to find it while I unearth the silver coins from their hiding spot.
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That is awful. Interval halving wouldn't be any harder to program and would be better than that.
 
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Ralph Baer said:
In recent years there have been a lot of posts of various instances of community service by the team.
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What about before the Appert days? I realize that news did not spread as virally as it does today, but I wonder if it could have an impact on attendance (aside from the obvious impact created from winning).
 
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FlagDUDE08 said:
What about before the Appert days? I realize that news did not spread as virally as it does today, but I wonder if it could have an impact on attendance (aside from the obvious impact created from winning).
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i think so, but as you wrote, the news didn't spread nearly as well.
 
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FlagDUDE08 said:
What about before the Appert days? I realize that news did not spread as virally as it does today, but I wonder if it could have an impact on attendance (aside from the obvious impact created from winning).
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That was actually the first thing I thought too when I saw the team volunteering at school. The impact on attendance.
 
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Red Cloud said:
That was actually the first thing I thought too when I saw the team volunteering at school. The impact on attendance.
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It really doesn't have an impact on attendance. I do know that prior to SA, the coach gave 6 or 7 free home game tickets to an advisor at School 14 to be distributed to the best student weekly at the various grade levels, knowing that the parents/parent would have to get tickets in order to bring them. Players would also read at various local schools throughout the community.
 
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Ralph Baer said:
That is awful. Interval halving wouldn't be any harder to program and would be better than that.
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Microsoft always seemed to me to have the second-best application in every field: Lotus 1-2-3 was far superior to Excel; WordPerfect was far superior to Word, etc. etc.
 
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turk181 said:
J, do you subscribe to NEHJ or do you pick it up at one of the rinks? I can get the NYHJ at the Knick, among other places, but haven't seen the NE version.
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Just read the online version. I hope this finds you well. See you on the north boards with my boys and tb this weekend. God bless.
 
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turk181 said:
J, do you subscribe to NEHJ or do you pick it up at one of the rinks?
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Turk almost inadvertently disclosed my well disguised identity. Since you now know my first initial... I will disclose my full name. Bond...James Bond.
 
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despite the enthusiasim (as expected) of the RPI faithful and the generous early ranking by the media & coaches poll, the NY Hockey Journal had us finishing 10th in it's pre-season issue.
 
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AspyDad said:
Turk almost inadvertently disclosed my well disguised identity. Since you now know my first initial... I will disclose my full name. Bond...James Bond.
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and here I thought you were part of, "the Men in Black", known only as Agent J.
 
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turk181 said:
despite the enthusiasim (as expected) of the RPI faithful and the generous early ranking by the media & coaches poll, the NY Hockey Journal had us finishing 10th in it's pre-season issue.
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Good point Turk. We were all excited about this freshman class (still am) and maybe forgot that whatever their respective ages there is an adjustment. We're seeing the younger guys making the adjustments and the wins and ties coming from it. Look at Yale, they had a slide too. Onion and Cornell did not have the big drop off because they play system hockey (trap, left wing lock, etc.).
 
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