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Re: Recommending "Hidden Figures"

I was prepared to dislike the movie as Hollywood has a tendency to overstate and sugarcoat. There was plenty of this in the film, but still, I liked it.

Not all of the math was correct, but it was nice to see the Projectile Range equation show up, even if it was not directly applicable to the problem.

The use of Euler's "old" calculus solution being applied to a new scenario was sweet.

The use of a sledgehammer to solve two "problems" was clever in their different contexts.

Ah.....FORTRAN. I got my education in programming with this language.
Confusing a "1" with a lower case "L" was a bugaboo.
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We used to submit our "files", and return two hours later to find our results were faulty due to one misplaced character.

The fact that the term "computers" was used to denote people who could solve mental math proficiently was a nice touch.

The film is worth your time for its problem solving approaches and the way it reflected both the space race and civil rights movement.

Nostalgia.
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