"Grimble Gromble" wrote
Tremendous stuff. Thanks. Thanks also to Robin and Steve for their links and Oswald for his comments. Now all I have to do is
find a thinking cap, don it, and digest pointed to information.

Quite why I did all that googling rather than someone else is a source of
some confusion to me.

Because you're a considerate person and it is much appreciated. I've noticed some comments before about people failing to
utilise Google (first). We're not all lazy.

I know. I do the same myself. Sometimes you just can't be fagged, right?
You just want someone to tell you without wading through possibly-unreliable
websites. Not a crime.

Actually I was doing some experimentation with Google yesterday. I wanted to
know whether kinda "cross-product" searches would work. For example, suppose
I knew someone's name sounded like "Tom Wolf", but wasn't sure of the
spelling of either name. Satisfyingly, the following search expression seemed
to work:

"(tom|thomas|thom) (wolf|woolf|wolfe)"

Note the enclosing quotes that stipulate that the words must occur together
and in that order. It did seem to return stuff like "Thomas Wolfe" and
"Tom Wolfe" and so on.

On the flipside, Google's "calculator" doesn't know what atan2() is.


Martin
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