Subj : Re: Kerosene Engines
To   : Andrey Kanunnikov
From : Charles Radley
Date : Sat Aug 05 2000 12:55 am

-=> Andrey Kanunnikov wrote to Charles Radley <=-

 AK> Did you hear about computer "ZX-Spectrum" ever? There used
 AK> Chebychev polinomials for calculations some functions.

Interesting, I have not heard of it.

 AK> Charles, sometimes it seems to me that our (in Russia) radio and
 AK> television shows the achievments of russian science as more significant
 AK> as it is in truth

 There aare many major accomplishment which Russia may be very proud of.
 In old the Soviet times the problem was that the USSR government
 exaggerated the accomplishment, even making false or distorted claims
 and unfortunately this served to reduce the credibility.  It made it
 difficult to distinguish between the many real accomplishments and
 the fake ones.

 Even today it is still a problem in most countries, even the USA
 sometimes exaggerates.

 But please let us not dicuss such general politics, this can turn into
 arguments which the Echo rules are intended to prevent.

 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 !
 AK> What word is more closer by meaning for using?

 Well, I am note really sure what you meant.  Both terms are
 correct, depending on context.

 For multiple identical spacecraft, sometimes the word constellation
 is used.     For aircraft (including the Shuttle) the word fleet
 is commonly used.

 About 512K Shuttle computer memroy:
 AK> But why so little?!
 AK> (Is it frase correct to use in english?)

 Yes, but phrase is correct, frase is maybe a joke  :-)

 The Shutte computer memory is specially rugged, and at the time it
 was designed (1972), it was a lot

 Later,

 Charles R.


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