Subj : Kerosene Engines
To   : Charles Radley
From : Andrey Kanunnikov
Date : Fri Aug 04 2000 02:02 am

Hello, Charles!

Wednesday July 26 2000 07:30, Charles Radley wrote to Andrey Kanunnikov:

 CR> The world's first and best experts in real-time dynamic control
 CR> algorithms are RUSSIAN.
 CR> The first works on the subject were developed by the following
 CR> people:
 CR>   Pontryagin (optimal control)
 CR>   Markov (classical control theory)
 CR>   Chebychev (special polynomials)
 CR>   Lyapunov (non-linear control)
It's very pleasant, i really didn't know about it.
Did you hear about computer "ZX-Spectrum" ever? There used Chebychev 
polinomials for calculations some functions.

 CR>  There are still a lot of people in Russia who have an excellent
 CR> understanding of this subject.   It is a major reason why USSR/Russia
 CR> succeeded to launc the world's first satelite - Sputnik-1.   I
 CR> discussed some of these theories with representatives of a large
 CR> America rocket company, and I foudn they had a rather poor
 CR> understanding of the subject.
Charles, sometimes it seems to me that our (in Russia) radio and television
shows the achievments of russian science as more significant as it is in truth

 AK>> I'am sorry. My english isn't well enough. I meant interplanetary
 AK>> crafts.
 CR>  Actually  craft is correct for both, it is both singular and plural.
 CR>  Crafts is not a valid word !
What word is more closer by meaning for using?

 AK>> There are special programs checked many times and made specially
 AK>> for the onboard equipment. But it's hard for me to imagine
 AK>> what could be if there was a Microsoft Windows 98 for example ;-)
 CR>  Hah !  The Shuttle computer have 512 K of memory, not enough to even
 CR> load Windows-98 !
But why so little?!
(Is it frase correct to use in english?)

                             I will glad to see you in the future. Andrey.

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