Lost EXPONENT [message #33438] |
Sat, 04 January 2003 11:03  |
David Fanning
Messages: 11724 Registered: August 2001
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Folks,
I am working on an article about labeling minor tick
marks on log axes (sigh...) and I am running across
references to a program "exponent.pro", supposedly
written by Stein Vidar. Does anyone have this program?
Thanks.
Cheers,
David
P.S. Let's just say if anyone has developed anything
better than Martin Schultz's AXLABEL and LOGLEVELS routines,
I like to hear about it. :-)
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David W. Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Phone: 970-221-0438, E-mail: david@dfanning.com
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Toll-Free IDL Book Orders: 1-888-461-0155
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Re: Lost EXPONENT [message #33535 is a reply to message #33438] |
Thu, 09 January 2003 11:23  |
Stein Vidar Hagfors H[2]
Messages: 28 Registered: October 2002
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David Fanning <david@dfanning.com> writes:
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> So I went searching for it. I got so annoyed with the
> search engine I had there (I was searching a lot of
> documents and not finding what I was looking for) that
> I replaced the search engine with a Google search engine.
This is what should be done with about 90% of all "search this site"
engines. The only ones that tend to do better than google are the ones
that deal with a structured data base (e.g. look up & compare prices, etc).
> Then I forgot to go looking for the thing I was looking
> for in the first place!
>
> Sigh... I hear they are making great progress on the
> Alzheimer's front. I hope so. :-(
I do this all the time. A little suspicious that trying once more to
locate the routine didn't trigger a recall of the previous search result,
though?
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NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Tel.: 1-301-286-9028
Mail Code 682.3, Bld. 26, Room G-1, Cell: 1-240-354-6066
Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA. Fax: 1-301-286-0264
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Re: Lost EXPONENT [message #33537 is a reply to message #33438] |
Thu, 09 January 2003 11:14  |
David Fanning
Messages: 11724 Registered: August 2001
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Stein Vidar Hagfors Haugan (steinhh@astro.uio.no) writes:
> Now, David! I don't know about AXLABEL and LOGLEVELS, but after trying in vain
> to find the exponent.pro routine in my own path, google helpfully points me to
> this page:
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> http://www.dfanning.com/tips/exponents.html
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> It says "Last Updated 4 March 1999" so I guess it's forgiveable (any program
> from last millennium is outdated?), but it's kind of funny anyhow. And yes,
> certain stylistic features indicate that I am indeed the author ("my
> moderately late second millennium style")!
Oh, right. This is funny, because it was suggested to me
several weeks ago that I could find it on my web page.
So I went searching for it. I got so annoyed with the
search engine I had there (I was searching a lot of
documents and not finding what I was looking for) that
I replaced the search engine with a Google search engine.
Then I forgot to go looking for the thing I was looking
for in the first place!
Sigh... I hear they are making great progress on the
Alzheimer's front. I hope so. :-(
Cheers,
David
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David W. Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Phone: 970-221-0438, E-mail: david@dfanning.com
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Toll-Free IDL Book Orders: 1-888-461-0155
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Re: Lost EXPONENT [message #33538 is a reply to message #33438] |
Thu, 09 January 2003 10:49  |
Stein Vidar Hagfors H[2]
Messages: 28 Registered: October 2002
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David Fanning <david@dfanning.com> writes:
> Folks,
>
> I am working on an article about labeling minor tick
> marks on log axes (sigh...) and I am running across
> references to a program "exponent.pro", supposedly
> written by Stein Vidar. Does anyone have this program?
>
> Thanks.
[..]
> P.S. Let's just say if anyone has developed anything
> better than Martin Schultz's AXLABEL and LOGLEVELS routines,
> I like to hear about it. :-)
Now, David! I don't know about AXLABEL and LOGLEVELS, but after trying in vain
to find the exponent.pro routine in my own path, google helpfully points me to
this page:
http://www.dfanning.com/tips/exponents.html
It says "Last Updated 4 March 1999" so I guess it's forgiveable (any program
from last millennium is outdated?), but it's kind of funny anyhow. And yes,
certain stylistic features indicate that I am indeed the author ("my
moderately late second millennium style")!
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Stein Vidar Hagfors Haugan
ESA SOHO SOC/European Space Agency Science Operations Coordinator for SOHO
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Tel.: 1-301-286-9028
Mail Code 682.3, Bld. 26, Room G-1, Cell: 1-240-354-6066
Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA. Fax: 1-301-286-0264
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