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Jim Baldwin
Jim Baldwin
1:12 AM
@JasonB. My fat fingers on my iPad seem to have downvoted your recent answer about histograms and that was not my intent. Sorry. It appears I can only take that back if your answer has been edited.
 
 
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Szabolcs
Szabolcs
8:22 AM
Personally I don't think this should be closed as off-topic: mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/78504/…
 
Kuba
Kuba
@kirma @Silvia No, I'm still confused:
- 1 pp = 1/72 inch
So if I have 96 dpi screen (and assuming dots are equivalent printer points) the ratio pp : px is not 1:1 and WindowSize -> {2560, _} should not be full width window.
Ahh, where am I missing something?
 
Szabolcs
Szabolcs
How to install various Mathematica packages should be on-topic, as it is directly related to Mathematica, it is about using Mathematica in practice, etc. It shouldn't matter that the package is made by WRI or someone else.
Maybe we should have a meta post on this and decide?
 
Kuba
Kuba
@JacobAkkerboom You have IT background, help me :P
 
kirma
kirma
@Kuba My number is definitely bogus, or does indicate something that doesn't make sense...
 
Kuba
Kuba
@kirma my is 96dpi for every screen.
And MMA says so
@kirma so assuming it is 96dpi, should I have window width the same as screen width?
 
kirma
kirma
8:31 AM
I'm not certain at all any more... :)
 
Jacob Akkerboom
Jacob Akkerboom
8:43 AM
@Kuba Ah unfortunately that's not really my background :P. I've also gotta run to be in time for a football match right now
Spoilers: AlphaGo won, it's now 3-0 so it won 3 out of the 5 games against this top human.
 
Meta
Meta
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Q: Moving discussion from comments to chat removes deletability ‎- rationale?

Yves KlettPrompted by a recent transferral of a long comment discussion to chat by a moderator, I noticed that (this being chat then) previous comments become permanent. Not an issue in this case at all, but sometimes I like to remove a comment for tidying up. So just out curiosity, are there any serious ...

discussion chat
 
Kuba
Kuba
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Q: What is a printer's point?

KubaAccording to the documentation it is a basic unit for size spec. WindowSize and ImageSize says: I would like to clarify couple of things: Is this the same what Wikipedia calls Point(in typography)? Because Printer point seems to be something different. (notice no "'s" there) Is this the same...

front-end display
@kirma @Silvia Posted a question, hope this will clarify things :)
 
kirma
kirma
9:03 AM
@Kuba I believe it should be the same as point in typography...
 
Kuba
Kuba
@kirma Me too, but now we have to find a flaw somewhere else in my reasoning :)
 
 
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Jason B
Jason B
11:29 AM
@JimBaldwin lol I saw that happen, assumed someone found my code to be bloated compared to DrB's answer. Good to know was a mistake. No worries
 
P. Fonseca
P. Fonseca
@Kuba concerning your question on the printers point, etc: I made some interpretations of my own on the following answer mathematica.stackexchange.com/a/310/78
I just assumed that the printers point is always 1/72 inch, and that Mathematica reads the screen dimension wrong (as can easily be seen on the ruler, etc...)
 
Kuba
Kuba
12:35 PM
@P.Fonseca Thanks, forgot about that topic. So do you agree with my statement:

"So it means the safe way to go is just to assume that the base unit in FrontEnd is pixel. But when printed it will behave as defined with correct printer points."

The first part seems to be proven but about the second, I don't know if MMA respects printers dpi (maybe it doesn't matter, I don't know I don't print so much :P)
 
 
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Dr. belisarius
Dr. belisarius
3:38 PM
Someone around for a stupid q?
 
Michael E2
Michael E2
3:58 PM
@Dr.belisarius I'm feeling pretty stupid. What's up?
 
Dr. belisarius
Dr. belisarius
@MichaelE2 Hi, Solved, but it was confusing for a few minutes. Look:
Thread[{#1, #2} &[{a, b, c}, {1, 2, 3}]]
(* {{a, 1}, {b, 2}, {c, 3}} *)
O?
ok?
Now look at this slight variation
(* Thread[{#1[1], #2} &[{a, b, c}, {1, 2, 3}]] *)
I felt sooo stupid
 
Michael E2
Michael E2
@Dr.belisarius I just did something on that level looking at a question.
 
Dr. belisarius
Dr. belisarius
@MichaelE2 We all have "those" moments
But politicians tend to hide them :)
 
Silvia
Silvia
4:19 PM
@Kuba I think I have the answer. Right now composing :)
 
Feeds
Feeds
 
Dr. belisarius
Dr. belisarius
4:39 PM
@StackExchange What does it mean?
being an "owner"
Does he ought to pay taxes now?
 
 
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kirma
kirma
6:20 PM
 
 
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Michael E2
Michael E2
9:02 PM
Does anyone agree these are duplicates: (91534), (109841) ? (My lone vote can close it, but I don't like to do that.)
 
 
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MarcoB
MarcoB
10:50 PM
@MichaelE2 I agree. I have voted to close as duplicate. It is also difficult to answer the newer question in any meaningful way since it hinges on a feature from version 7 (StoppingTest) which does not run on my v.10 any more.
 

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