Dik Winter

[Ben Bacarisse]

I have just heard the sad news that Dik Winter died on the 28th of
December, a couple of months before he was due to retire.
http://www.cwi.nl/en/2009/1044/Dik-Winter

Since he was a frequent poster here, I though you'd all like to know.
My apologies if posts like this are not appropriate.

 

[Keith Thompson]

I have just heard the sad news that Dik Winter died on the 28th of
December, a couple of months before he was due to retire.
http://www.cwi.nl/en/2009/1044/Dik-Winter

I'm so sorry to hear that. His contributions here will be missed.

 

[Richard Tobin]

I have just heard the sad news that Dik Winter died on the 28th of
December, a couple of months before he was due to retire.

I'm sorry to hear that. Thanks for letting us know.

-- Richard

 

[Flash Gordon]

I have just heard the sad news that Dik Winter died on the 28th of
December, a couple of months before he was due to retire.
http://www.cwi.nl/en/2009/1044/Dik-Winter

Since he was a frequent poster here, I though you'd all like to know.
My apologies if posts like this are not appropriate.

That's a real shame. I didn't know him, but his contributions were
valuable and I'm sure he had earned a long and happy retirement.

To make this vaguely topical, it's a loss to the C development community
for the advice he could have contributed.

 

[Seebs]

I'm sorry to hear that. Thanks for letting us know.

Seconded.

-s

 

[Phil Carmody]

I have just heard the sad news that Dik Winter died on the 28th of
December, a couple of months before he was due to retire.
http://www.cwi.nl/en/2009/1044/Dik-Winter

Since he was a frequent poster here, I though you'd all like to know.
My apologies if posts like this are not appropriate.

Thanks for passing that on. I always enjoyed Dik's posts as so
many had a numeric bent, which is my field of greatest interest.
In other newsgroups, he was one of a tiny handful of posters to
whom I gave a positive score, so that I could zip straight to
interesting posts. A grave loss to this and several other groups
and communities.

Phil

 

[Dennis \(Icarus\)]

I have just heard the sad news that Dik Winter died on the 28th of
December, a couple of months before he was due to retire.
http://www.cwi.nl/en/2009/1044/Dik-Winter

Since he was a frequent poster here, I though you'd all like to know.
My apologies if posts like this are not appropriate.

I am sorry to hear that. He'll be greatly missed.

Dennis

 

[Frank]

I have just heard the sad news that Dik Winter died on the 28th of
December, a couple of months before he was due to retire.
http://www.cwi.nl/en/2009/1044/Dik-Winter

Since he was a frequent poster here, I though you'd all like to know.
My apologies if posts like this are not appropriate.

Dik was een goed persoon, goed geïnformeerde met C, patiënt in het
onderwijs, en strikte contra-voorbeeld voor mijn stelling dat alle
Hollanders op het internet zijn klootzakken.

 

[Dann Corbit]

I have just heard the sad news that Dik Winter died on the 28th of
December, a couple of months before he was due to retire.
http://www.cwi.nl/en/2009/1044/Dik-Winter

Since he was a frequent poster here, I though you'd all like to know.
My apologies if posts like this are not appropriate.

Sad news. He was certainly one of my favorite posters to read.
His mathematical insight was wonderful, and his numerical experience
without par among those that post here.

 

[Charles Richmond]

I have just heard the sad news that Dik Winter died on the 28th of
December, a couple of months before he was due to retire.
http://www.cwi.nl/en/2009/1044/Dik-Winter

Since he was a frequent poster here, I though you'd all like to know.
My apologies if posts like this are not appropriate.

Damn!!! Dik has posted on Usenet for at least the last twenty
years, and certainly has added to the useful and interesting
content. While I *never* knew Dik personally, my life has been
diminished by his passing. He was a "straight up" kind of guy and
there are *not* many like that on Usenet.

In the early 90's, I posted a question about calculating the value
of pi, and Dik posted the following program. (I do *not* know if
he originated it, but I found it interesting.) You can compile and
run it:


int
a=10000,b,c=2800,d,e,f[2801],g;main(){for(;b-cf[b++]=a/5;for(;d=0,g=c*2;c
-=14,printf("%.4d",e+d/a),e=d%a)for(b=c;d+=f*a,f=d%--g,d/=g--,--b;d*=b);}

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[Nick Keighley]

I have just heard the sad news that Dik Winter died on the 28th of
December, a couple of months before he was due to retire.http://www.cwi.nl/en/2009/1044/Dik-Winter

Since he was a frequent poster here, I though you'd all like to know.
My apologies if posts like this are not appropriate.

also sorry to here this. Whenever there was a discussion about
numerical maths I'd perk up my (metaphorical) ears when I saw Dik
Winter was posting "aha! now we'll find out what the real answer is!".
He seems to have programmed some odd machines in his time! And seen
the wierdest floating point formats. And he appeared to know an awful
lot about Algols.

Oh, and he was nice to people!

 

[John]

I have just heard the sad news that Dik Winter died on the 28th of
December, a couple of months before he was due to retire.http://www.cwi.nl/en/2009/1044/Dik-Winter

Since he was a frequent poster here, I though you'd all like to know.
My apologies if posts like this are not appropriate.

I am sorry, although I don't know who he is.

John Cui

 

[Walter Banks]

I have just heard the sad news that Dik Winter died on the 28th of
December, a couple of months before he was due to retire.
http://www.cwi.nl/en/2009/1044/Dik-Winter

Since he was a frequent poster here, I though you'd all like to know.

Sad news. We lost someone who loved his craft and was good at it.
He last posted here on 21 Dec. Dik will be missed.

Walter..

 

[Phil Carmody]

I have just heard the sad news that Dik Winter died on the 28th of
December, a couple of months before he was due to retire.
http://www.cwi.nl/en/2009/1044/Dik-Winter

Since he was a frequent poster here, I though you'd all like to know.
My apologies if posts like this are not appropriate.

Damn!!! Dik has posted on Usenet for at least the last twenty years,
and certainly has added to the useful and interesting content. While
I *never* knew Dik personally, my life has been diminished by his
passing. He was a "straight up" kind of guy and there are *not* many
like that on Usenet.

In the early 90's, I posted a question about calculating the value of
pi, and Dik posted the following program. (I do *not* know if he
originated it, but I found it interesting.) You can compile and run it:


int
a=10000,b,c=2800,d,e,f[2801],g;main(){for(;b-cf[b++]=a/5;for(;d=0,g=c*2;c
-=14,printf("%.4d",e+d/a),e=d%a)for(b=c;d+=f*a,f=d%--g,d/=g--,--b;d*=b);}

Arndt credits something practically identical to this but a bit shorter
(there have been many variations), to Dik Winter and Achim Flemmenkamp.

Phil

 

[Richard Bos]

I have just heard the sad news that Dik Winter died on the 28th of
December, a couple of months before he was due to retire.
http://www.cwi.nl/en/2009/1044/Dik-Winter

That is, indeed, very sad news. He was one of the few posters to this
newsgroup who commanded _real_ respect.

Richard

 

[Seebs]

Yes, and the best memorial to him would be if some of the experts round
here learnt that from him. Correcting people does not have to be
aggressive and confrontational. Dik was in the band of experts who
understood that.

A good point. I should stop posting while in a bad mood.

-s

 

[Frank]

Damn!!! Dik has posted on Usenet for at least the last twenty years, and
certainly has added to the useful and interesting content. While I
*never* knew Dik personally, my life has been diminished by his passing.
He was a "straight up" kind of guy and there are *not* many like that on
Usenet.

In the early 90's, I posted a question about calculating the value of
pi, and Dik posted the following program. (I do *not* know if he
originated it, but I found it interesting.) You can compile and run it:


int
a=10000,b,c=2800,d,e,f[2801],g;main(){for(;b-cf[b++]=a/5;for(;d=0,g=c*2;c
-=14,printf("%.4d",e+d/a),e=d%a)for(b=c;d+=f*a,f=d%--g,d/=g--,--b;d*=b);}

I wasn't at all prepared for how many sig figs he got out of this:

dan@dan-desktop:~/source$ gcc -std=c99 -Wall -Wextra winter1.c -o out; ./out
winter1.c:2: warning: return type defaults to ‘int’
winter1.c: In function ‘main’:
winter1.c:3: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘printf’
winter1.c:3: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in
function ‘printf’
31415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679821480865132823066470938446095505822317253594081284811174502841027019385211055596446229489549303819644288109756659334461284756482337867831652712019091456485669234603486104543266482133936072602491412737245870066063155881748815209209628292540917153643678925903600113305305488204665213841469519415116094330572703657595919530921861173819326117931051185480744623799627495673518857527248912279381830119491298336733624406566430860213949463952247371907021798609437027705392171762931767523846748184676694051320005681271452635608277857713427577896091736371787214684409012249534301465495853710507922796892589235420199561121290219608640344181598136297747713099605187072113499999983729780499510597317328160963185dan@dan-desktop:~/source$


That's amazing.

 

[lovecreatesbeauty]

I have just heard the sad news that Dik Winter died on the 28th of
December, a couple of months before he was due to retire.http://www.cwi.nl/en/2009/1044/Dik-Winter

Since he was a frequent poster here, I though you'd all like to know.
My apologies if posts like this are not appropriate.

Dik helped me in the "setting to zero" thread in Sep. Maybe he also
gave help to me in other posts which i can't remember and can't find.

I saw Dik's name in this group for many many times before.

Thank you.

 

[Phil Carmody]

In the early 90's, I posted a question about calculating the value of
pi, and Dik posted the following program. (I do *not* know if he
originated it, but I found it interesting.) You can compile and run it:

int
a=10000,b,c=2800,d,e,f[2801],g;main(){for(;b-cf[b++]=a/5;for(;d=0,g=c*2;c
-=14,printf("%.4d",e+d/a),e=d%a)for(b=c;d+=f*a,f=d%--g,d/=g--,--b;d*=b);}

I wasn't at all prepared for how many sig figs he got out of this:

Search for 'spigot' algorithm.

Phil

 

[Antoninus Twink]

I have just heard the sad news that Dik Winter died on the 28th of
December, a couple of months before he was due to retire.

Sad news - a valuable contributor to this group who managed to float
above all the bullshit and provide useful information without prejudice.

My apologies if posts like this are not appropriate.

FFS! The poor guy has just died and you're still worried about tiptoeing
around the topicality zealots. Let them fume if they like while those of
us not completely cut off from common humanity reflect on his
contribution.