Welcome to xcvvc.com

This is a blog of a different type: no “day-to-day” ...It is a simple method to test a few different presentation styles for my reference.
Click for a brief overview of what is on my GitHub. The projects include the e-publishing example .nav and .toc files, the big grap of publicly traded corporation financials and analysis, and the legacy iTunes and iPhoto album archiver
Click for an excerpt from the 1851 Tahitian language dictionary I formated into HTML for a friend whose daughter was leaving to live there for a year and a half. To save space I’ve removed the middle 300 pages or so. What is left is a good example of the difficulty providing an electronic version of a foreign language dictionary: turning page to page as one would use a paperback book. Do not use the browser’s offer to translate into Maori!!!
Algebra and Adjectives?   After some WW2 era math graduate students were introduced to [∞, +∞], which replaced the more rational (-∞, +∞), My second Calculus teacher asked his classmates “what is five?”
Understanding nouns: An introductions to units of measure
“Isn’t there a formula for that?”  It is too unfortunate how people of all ages stop learning Algebra after they get the unexpected answer to a very common question
Calculating percentages:   From time to time, people question how to go about working with percentages. Does the ratio go first? Last? How do fractions act like percentage calculations.
Audio, Video have joined the center stage as important parts of technical communication. The experience is called by many names. First were the Classics, then came Rhetoric, Speech, Communications, Mass Communications, and now Mass Media. They all have one thing in common: a script. Here my first script written for a full-length story ballet. After learning that the Joffrey Ballet in Chicago asked for a ONE-page libretto for a reimagining of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker to celebrate the 1893 World’s Fair, I was able to trim my script to 8-pages of entrances, props and lighting.
As machine learning leaps forward with new abilities to move, fly, and predict, here is a short paper on the result of 500,000 trials (all hindsight) to promote increasing profits and avoid holding onto increasing losses based on daily 1997 global index values and global currencies.
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These next three posts relate to a financial markets matter.

First is the Nasdaq 100, which is not the Nasdaq index amount reported in the news each morning. But the ‘100’ has a futures contract and an option traded. Source slickcharts.com/nasdaq100 October 15, 2021...

Microsoft Corp: 11% (red)

Apple: 10% (orange-red)

Amazon 8%, Alphabet class A and C: 8%, Tesla 5%, (yellow)

the greens: NVIDIA 4%, Facebook class A 4% (3.5%), Paypal 2% and Adobe 2%...

The other 91 companies (blue)...

Second is the S&P 500, which also has a futures contract and many, many options traded. slickcharts.com/sp500...

The 5 and 6% companies (red): Microsoft, Apple, Alphabet class A and C.

The yellows: Amazon 4%, Facebook 2%, Tesla 2% (rounded off a bit).

the greens (1 to 1.5%): NVIDIA, Berkshire Hathaway Class B, JPMorgan Chase, J&J, UnitedHealth, Visa.

The other 488 companies (blue)...

Last is the Dow Industrials index, which is calculated much differently than the other two. Source: dogsofthedow.com/dow-30-stocks-list-today.html October 15th, 2021.

...the $300/share and higher companies (red): Goldman, Home Depot, United Health, MIcrosoft...

...the $200s (yellow): Visa, Caterpillar, Honeywell, Salesforce, Amgen, Boeing, McDonald’s...

...the $100s (green): American Express, JP Morgan Chase, Disney, 3M, IBM, Apple, Johnson & Johnson, Chevron, Nike, Walmart, Procter & Gamble, Travlers...

...the unders (blue): Intel, Verizon, Dow, Merck, Coca-Cola, Cisco Systems, Walgreens...

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