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... preserve the flavor of his discontent while slightly enlarging the scope ofthe discussion The Ele-ments of Style does not pretend to survey the whole field Rather it proposes to give in brief space the ... Jr A textbook required for the course was a slim volume called The Elements of Style, whose author was the professor himself The year was 1919 The book was known on the campus in those days as ... fuel." They learn that they are being chatterboxes when they say "the question as to whether" and that they should just say "whether"-a saving of four words out of a possible five The

Ngày tải lên: 23/04/2021, 16:44

... at the end, and it has no other connections with the rest of the program The logical IF reduces the apparent complexity of the program Occasionally the third branch of an arithmetic IF can serve ... Trang 3320 THE ELEMENTS OF PROGRAMMING STYLE CHAPTER 2 We also deleted the inaccessible STOP statement and the explicit indexing in the READ statements, indented the code, and numbered the statements ... assistance they gave to this project were the principal architects of UNIX; besides reading drafts, they helped us get the most out of the system while we were working on this book J F Ossanna wrote the

Ngày tải lên: 13/10/2022, 15:38

... important phase, too often neglected in the past We have revised The Elements of Programming Style extensively to reflect these changes The first edition avoided any direct mention of the term "structured ... Manual of Style Copyright© McGraw-Hill, Inc 1970 By permission Trang 6CONTENTS vii Trang 8PREFACE to the Second Edition The practice of computer programming has changed since The Elements of Pro-gramming ... Trang 1THE ELEMENTS OF PROGRAMMING STYLE SECOND EDITION Kernighan and Plauger Trang 2THE ELEMENTS OF PROGRAMMING STYLE Second Edition Brian W Kernighan

Ngày tải lên: 01/03/2023, 16:20

... objects They are... set of composition 1 Proportion and scale - Size and shapes of objects - Reference point of the objects - Use these points to analise how big you should draw the other ... weight,... and there interaction with other enviroments These masses evoke thought , feelings and tensions - seeking out the purest form of the subject Non Objective Masses They refer to ... called Analogus are adjacent in the circle. They have at least one common colour. e.g. Yellow / Orange / Red ( Common colour is Yellow ) - The use of these two types of colours can create a purposeful

Ngày tải lên: 21/03/2014, 22:53

... ) of the other, the base of that whichhas the greater angle is greater than the base of the other Dem.—Of the two sides AB, AC, let AB be the one which is not the greater, and with it make the ... 18The Solution of a problem is the method of construction which accomplishesthe required end.The Demonstration is the proof, in the case of a theorem, that the conclusionfollows from the hypothesis; ... of one equal to the angle CGB contained by the two sides of the other Therefore [iv.] these triangles have the angle F BC equal to theangle GCB, and these are the angles below the base Also the

Ngày tải lên: 04/06/2014, 11:52

... 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright ... written two of the fi Game and Malkiel’s A Random Walk Down Wall Street, why should the authors revisit the subject of their already classic volumes? The sad fact is that in the cacophony of advice ... you on the right course for long-term success through all kinds of markets BURTON G MALKIEL is the Chemical Bank Chairman’s Professor of Economics at Princeton University and the author of the bestselling

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20

... investing at the peak of the stock market each year Another investor starts later but is the world ’ s luckiest investor, buying at the absolute bottom of the market every year The fi rst investor, ... Scott Adams, the creator of the Dilbert comic strip, calls credit cards “ the crack cocaine of the fi nancial world They start out as a no - fee way to get instant gratifi cation, but the next thing ... sentences Another reason for saving is quite positive: Most of us enjoy the extra comfort and the feeling of accomplishment that comes with both the process of saving and with the results —

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... based on the width of a house Consider another architectural example, the invention of the mansard roof in France Property taxes were often levied on the number of rooms in a house and, therefore, ... pleasure in the process of saving and the process of keeping trim They do not think in terms of deprivation; they think in terms of making good progress toward achieving their goal As they make ... cheaper and often faster For others, a taxi is worth the extra expense And some people — each with one of those two different kinds of preferences — are happily married to each other Their secret

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20

... the pockets of the croupiers of the fi nancial system, not into your retirement funds That ’ s why active managers do not beat the market — and why the market beats them DON ’ T SOME BEAT THE ... through their pension plans, 401(k) plans, or IRAs, professional managers, as a group, cannot beat the market because they are the market Because the players in the market must, on average, earn the ... Swensen, the brilliant portfolio manager for the Yale University endowment fund We are convinced there will be “ another Warren Buffett ” over the next 40 years There may even be sev-eral of them

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... mutual funds The fund pools the money from thousands of investors and buys a portfolio of hundreds of individual common stocks The mutual fund collects all the dividends, does all the accounting, ... broadly diversifi ed bond fund The U.S Treasury issues large amounts of bonds These issues are considered the safest of all and these bonds are the one type of security where diversifi cation ... higher at the end of the period While a total of exactly $ 5,000 is invested in both cases, the investor in the volatile market ends up with $ 6,048 — a nice return of $ 1,048 — even though the stock

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20

... before the end of the year to profi t from the supposed regularity But then investors will have to jump the gun even earlier, buying two days before Christmas and selling two days before the end of ... on the subject of minimizing costs, we need to warn you to beware of stockbrokers Brokers have one priority: to make a good income for them-selves That ’ s why they do what they do the way they ... well-above-average returns because of the low costs you pay Trang 9 V In his attempts to unlock the complex secrets of the universe, Albert Einstein, the greatest scientist of the twentieth century,

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20

... of her estate to her children or grandchildren The appropriate allocation for those plan-ning bequests should be geared to the age of the recipi-ent, not the age of the donor, for that part of ... total value of all stocks traded Trang 14in the United States It excludes the 30 percent made up of smaller companies, many of which are the most entre-preneurial and capable of the fastest future ... to their age, not yours Most people, however, will be drawing down their savings during retirement They will be faced with a Trang 11decision of whether to buy an annuity with part or all of their

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... served as a member of the President ’ s Council of Economic Advisers, Dean of the Yale School of Management, Chair of Princeton ’ s Economics Depart-ment, and as a director of major corporations ... Swensen Trang 5 ABOUT THE AUTHORS BURTON G MALKIEL Burton G Malkiel is the Chemical Bank Chairman ’ s Professor of Economics at Princeton University and the author of the bestselling, A Random ... investing, these are the books we recommend: John C Bogle, Common Sense on Mutual Funds: New Imperatives for the Intelligent Investor (John Wiley & Sons, 2000). John C Bogle, The Little Book of

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20

... PM 128 * These are the rules as of 2009; the dollar limits may well be raised in subsequent years. wish. Just make sure you are taking full advantage of at least one of these plans. They not ... market indexes in the United States and in the world. The table on the opposite page shows the menu of ETFs that we recommend. ETFs tend to have very low expense ratios, and they can be more ... roll the balance of your traditional IRA into a Roth, again if your income level qualifies.* You need to pay tax on the amount converted, but from then on neither the earnings nor the

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 00:20

... something And then do something else The more you do, the merrier he will be Mr Market is expensive and the cost of transac-tions is the small part of the total cost The large part of the total ... record because the market is already the aggregate result of many, many Trang 12The Elements of Investing well - informed investors making their best estimates and expressing their views with ... a year at the beginning of January (Don ’ t be trigger - happy: Rebalance once a year.) During January 2000, near the top of the Internet craze, the stock portion of the portfolio rose well above

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 08:20

... the air supply at the base of the burnerand turn off the gas until the flame is about 1 cm high; then upon introducing the Trang 28blowpipe, and blowing a strongcontinuous jet of air across the ... isdecomposed, the metal being transformedinto the carbonate, which in turn, through Trang 41the agency of the Ch and the heat of theflame, is reduced to the free metal.Sometimes the reduction ... When the substance has beentaken up on the wire, it is placed in theedge of the long colorless flame of the Trang 44Bunsen burner near the apex, wheninstantly the flame becomes tinged withthe

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... in the theory of differential equations and in mathematical physics Krupka [5] studied the sheaves of differential forms on finite r-jet prolonga-tions J r Y Then he constructed the sequence of ... 0. 1 Introduction The notion of variational bicomplexes was introduced in studying the problem of characterizing the kernel and image of Euler-Lagrange mapping in the calcu-lus of variations This ... the sequence (1), E n is the Euler-Lagrange mapping and E n+1is the Helmholtz-Sonin mapping In the study of variational sequence, it is very important to give a concrete presentation of the elements

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 05:20

... art the subversive implications of style I shall bereturning again and again to Genet’s major themes: thestatus and meaning of revolt, the idea of style as a form ofRefusal, the elevation of crime ... us have of the relations between men and the world (Barthes, 1972) Like Eliot, Barthes’ notion of culture extends beyond thelibrary, the opera-house and the theatre to encompass thewhole of everyday ... asideas; hence of the relationships which make the oneclass the ruling class, therefore the ideas of itsdominance (Marx and Engels, 1970) This is the basis of Antonio Gramsci’s theory of hegemony

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2016, 10:31

... than or equal to the probability of either one occurring alone Here the description of the person frames the answering behavior The Allais paradox (Allais, 1953) is another example of framing that ... assessed The sum of the judged probabilities of individual events is therefore greater than the judged probability of the same combined events Unpacking the ways in which an investment might be profitable ... analysis is based on the correlation of the number of transactions within the different categories and searches for the lowest sum of deviations from the clusters‘ means The number of transactions

Ngày tải lên: 29/11/2016, 12:10

... men. The samples were then frozen and stored in a stainless steel tank. In the lefthand version of the first example, the reader has no way of knowing whether the stain was in the center of the ... bring the flesh and the blood. The more clearly the writer perceives the shape, the better are the chances of success. 13. Make the paragraph the unit of composition. The paragraph is a convenient ... instead, to preserve the flavor of his discontent while slightly enlarging the scope of the discussion. The Elements of Style does not pretend to survey the whole field. Rather it proposes to...

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