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Was there any reason why Dr Soong chose for Data's eyes to be yellow?  I can understand that he wasn't going for a completely human-looking android based on his skin color, but why yellow eyes? I remember (vaguely) reading somewhere that it is wrong to use the present perfect when the subject of a sentence is someone who is long dead:     *Einstein has visited the Philippines.   My question is, What if the dead person is not the subject but an object:     Leo is the best president our country has/had ever had. (The ones who   succeeded him were inferior, even our current president.)   Which tense is proper here Can the union axiom be weakened? How do I detect unsigned integer multiply overflow? I was writing a program in C++ to find all solutions of ab = c, where a, b and c together use all the digits 0-9 exactly once. The program looped over values of a and b, and it ran a digit-counting routine each time on a, b and ab to check if the digits condition was satisfied.  However, spurious solutions can be generated when ab overflows the integer limit. I ended up checking for this using code like:  unsigned long b, c, c_test; ... c_test=c*b;         // Possible overflow if (c_test/b != c) {/* There has been an overflow*/} else c=c_test;      // No overflow   Is there a better way of testing for overflow? I know that some chips have an internal flag that is set when overflow occurs, but I've never seen it accessed through C or C++.    Beware that signed int overflow is undefined behaviour in C and C++, and thus you have to detect it without actually causing it. For signed int overflow before addition, see . Links in newsletter preview link to YouTube The problem: The links at the bottom of the Stack&nbsp;Exchange newsletter link to a YouTube video instead of the right place on the website. I´m not sure if this is an oversight or a clever hack.  Screenshot: How to delete duplicate LiDAR points? How can I delete duplicate LiDAR points? I incorrectly read the same las twice and saved as a one file resulting in duplicate XY points.  How should I delete these duplicate points? Identification of particles and anti-particles The identification of an electron as a particle and the positron as an antiparticle is a matter of convention. We see lots of electrons around us so they become the normal particle and the rare and unusual positrons become the .  My question is, when you have made the choice of the electron and positron as particle and anti-particle does this automatically identify every other particle (every other fermion?) as normal or anti?  For example the proton is a particle, or rather the quarks inside are. By considering the interactions of an electron with a quark inside a proton can we find something, e.g. a conserved quantity, that naturally identifies that quark as a particle rather than an antiparticle? Or do we also just have to extend our convention so say that a proton is a particle rather than an antiparticle? To complete the family I guess the same question would apply to the neutrinos. What is the first reference to an internet of computers in science fiction? Rails: What's a good way to validate links (URLs)? My daughter asked me to cosign on a car loan.  Somehow I ended up as the borrower and she a the cosigner.  Is that legal? While drawing a simple 3D (fake 3D in fact) cube, I realized that the corners end up with unwanted extensions of the line. I understand this is related to the width of the lines themselves, but how can I remove them? An alternative solution of drawing the desired figure is also welcomed.  Example:  \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz}   \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture}  \draw[draw=black,fill=gray!20] (0,0) --(4.8,0)-- (4.8,5)--(0, 5)--cycle; \draw[draw=black,fill=gray!20] (4.8,5) -- (4.9,4.8)--(4.9,-0.1)--(4.8,0)--cycle; \draw[draw=black,fill=gray!20] (0,0) -- (0.1,-0.1)--(4.9,-0.1)--(4.8,0)--cycle; \draw[dashed,draw=black] (4.8,5) -- (4.9,4.8)--(0.1,4.8)--(0.,5)--cycle; \draw[dashed,draw=black] (0.1,-0.1)--(0.1,4.8)--(0.,5)--(0,0)--cycle; \end{tikzpicture} \end{document} Why do DNGs only show in low resolution on Google Photos? How do I create an Excel (.XLS and .XLSX) file in C# without installing Microsoft Office? There are several unknown numbers in mathematics, such as optimal constants in some inequalities. Often it is enough to some estimates for these numbers from above and below, but finding the exact values is also interesting. There are situations where such unknown numbers are necessarily natural numbers, for example in Ramsey theory. For example, we know that there is a smallest integer $n$ such that any graph with $n$ vertices contains a complete or an independent subgraph of 10 vertices, but we don't know the exact value of $n$.  What kinds of unknown small (less than 100, say) integers are there? What are the smallest unknown constants which are known to be integers? Or, more rigorously, what is the smallest upper bound for an unknown but definable number that is known to be an integer?  I know that asking for the smallest unknown integer is ill-defined since we do not know the exact values. The more rigorous version of the question is well-posed, but I do not want to keep anyone from offering interesting examples even if they are clearly not going to win the race for the lowest upper bound.  An answer should contain a definition of an integer quantity (or a family of them) and known lower and upper bounds (both of which should be integers, not infinite). Conjectures about the actual value are also welcome. I have given one example below to give an idea of what I'm looking for. How can I animate an object fading out? How do I redirect to another webpage? I have a layout similar to:  &lt;div&gt;     &lt;table&gt;     &lt;/table&gt; &lt;/div&gt;   I would like for the div to only expand to as wide as my table becomes. How to modify function argument? I tried to use xrandr to set 1680x1050 as a new mode to VGA output, but it says:  sudo xrandr --addmode VGA-0 1680 X Error of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) Major opcode of failed request:  140 (RANDR) Minor opcode of failed request:  18 (RRAddOutputMode) Serial number of failed request:  35 Current serial number in output stream:  36 Mathematical Induction divisibility $8\mid 3^{2n}-1$