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... you’ll learn about Ruby control structures, how to define your own messages, and a bit more about arrays and strings.5.1 Command- l i ne ArgumentsCommand-line arguments are available as strings ... useyour computer’s command-line interpreter. The command-line2inter- command-line interpreterpreter is a program that lets you command the compiler by typing intext, rather than by pointing and ... differences.rbdifferences.rb:1:in ‘initialize': cannot convert nil into String (TypeError)from differences.rb:1:in ‘open'from differences.rb:1Not a friendly error message. I encourage...
... Liability/Disclaimer of Warranty: While the publisher and author have used their best effortsin preparing this book, they make no representations or warranties with respect to the accuracy orcompleteness ... transition to thisvery general and powerful computer environment.REFERENCELedolter, J. and Burrill, C.: Statistical Quality Control: Strategies and Tools for ContinualImprovement. New York: John Wiley ... powerful and free. One may search for the software on the web and download thesystem. R is similar to Matlab and requires the user to write out simple instructions.The writing of (program) instructions...
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... 1.1where α is a real number.Differential forms are important generalizations of real functions and distributions.Specially, a differential l-form ω on Ω is a de Rham current 7, Chapter III on Ω with ... access article distributed under the CreativeCommons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction inany medium, provided the original work is properly cited.We ... Hu, where H is the harmonic projection operatorthat maps C∞lΩ onto H,sothatHu is the harmonic part of u.See8 for more propertiesof Green’s operator.The nonlinear elliptic partial...