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[Monday, September 22, 2003: CD workaround and tutor.]

I got up a little later today since I didn't go to sleep early last night. But I basically decided to try reinstalling the game before I brought the CD back to the store. I started installing and was surprised to see that it went past the spot where I had trouble the day before so I thought that this was a good sign and let it run. Unfortunately, it died again at a different spot but with the same error message. Curious, I stopped the installation and tried again. This time it errored out in the first spot. Could it be the CD-ROM? I decided to copy the contents of the CD onto my hard drive and install it from there. It took a couple of tries, but I finally got it to work (after using my laptop to help). Unfortunately, because the game installed from the hard drive, it scanned the hard drive looking for the CD (which was incorrect of course). But I got around that by doing a CD install, which installed some of the files, and overwrote the main install with these files so that some of them at least were installed via the CD installation. It worked! Sort of. I still get that CD error, but the game runs. So I'll probably try to finish the game and the take it off since it's going to be a bother. So there you go, it was the CD-ROM. Very annoying..

Just as I was figuring out how to install the game, I had to tutor DC. He was having issues with induction and complete induction. Most of the questions were easy, but one stumped me. It was a complete induction problem and I couldn't figure what the inductive step should be. Anyway it went something like this:

RTP: Any rational number r where 0 ≤ r ≤ 1 can be expressed as a sum of fractions 1/d1 + 1/d2 + ... + 1/dk where di is an integer and 1 ≤ d1 < d2 < ... < dk.

I'll have to look it up when I have the time.

[Wednesday, September 24, 2003: I found a page on this problem on Monday. This original comment was lost when I screwed up my scripts on Tuesday.]

Wednesday, September 24, 2003 at 18:00:57 (UTC)

You forgot to mention that r must be between 0 and 1!! Otherwise you'll upset the Egyptians and their fine fine artwork.

IrrationalRows

Wednesday, September 24, 2003 at 18:35:32 (UTC)

Good point. The change has been made.

QYV

Wednesday, October 16, 2024 @ 08:21:42 EDT

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