Comments on: Mathcad Inventor Reveals New Startup’s True Ambition—Numbers That Mean More and Don’t Make Mistakes http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2009/07/29/making-numbers-talk-true-engineerings-web-technology-connects-quantities-to-context/ Business + Technology in the Exponential Economy Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:54:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Miramon http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2009/07/29/making-numbers-talk-true-engineerings-web-technology-connects-quantities-to-context/comment-page-1/#comment-72725 Miramon Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:38:09 +0000 http://www.xconomy.com/?p=35498#comment-72725 Is a True Number a permanent URI? What guarantee is provided of permanence? Lockheed-Martin deserves dissolution for that famously imbecilic mistake, but it would be even worse if some software pinged a True Number URL for some critical application and got a 404. Also, what about any kind of calculation efficiency? Suppose I have to calculate with a table of a million or a billion True Numbers? Even if I cache them all, I am obviously going to be wasting enormous resources if I need a network round trip with all that HTML returned from an Internet inquiry into a True Number value. I suppose you may say that you shouldn't actually be calculating with True Numbers to begin with, but you can be pretty sure that if it becomes a government procurement standard, that's what Lockheed-Martin will do. Is a True Number a permanent URI? What guarantee is provided of permanence?

Lockheed-Martin deserves dissolution for that famously imbecilic mistake, but it would be even worse if some software pinged a True Number URL for some critical application and got a 404.

Also, what about any kind of calculation efficiency? Suppose I have to calculate with a table of a million or a billion True Numbers? Even if I cache them all, I am obviously going to be wasting enormous resources if I need a network round trip with all that HTML returned from an Internet inquiry into a True Number value.

I suppose you may say that you shouldn’t actually be calculating with True Numbers to begin with, but you can be pretty sure that if it becomes a government procurement standard, that’s what Lockheed-Martin will do.

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]]> By: awesome http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2009/07/29/making-numbers-talk-true-engineerings-web-technology-connects-quantities-to-context/comment-page-1/#comment-72532 awesome Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:49:21 +0000 http://www.xconomy.com/?p=35498#comment-72532 "Here’s an actual truenumber [...] 150 mi. To get a sense of how a truenumber works, hover over the quantity, then click on it" --- You clicked truenumber: 7a42dac3-b0df-49b6-b4aa=-31043ad2fb21 [ERROR] ID Not Found Comments and annotations -NONE- Barcode for this TrueNumber Invalid Data “Here’s an actual truenumber [...] 150 mi. To get a sense of how a truenumber works, hover over the quantity, then click on it”

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