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En la provincia de #Misiones, #Argentina el estado provincial compró un "sorteador cuántico" para la agencia provincial de loterías y afines.
En esta provincia el juego de azar es operado por una Sociedad del Estado, que fue la que adquirió esa falopeada. Justamente hoy el gobierno les anunció a los docentes que no habría aumento en octubre.
Pero si plata para comprar un sorteador cuántico que si observan en el vídeo, esta hecho en #visualbasic

youtube.com/watch?v=cLjItIyQyX

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@foximax @zombiewarrior Yeah, I keep asking myself the same question about languages becoming unfashionable and then fashionable again.

The only example I can think of is #BASIC. In the 80's BASIC was everywhere in the microcomputer space.

Then BASIC went away. #Pascal was the trendy beginner's language.

Then #VisualBASIC developed quite a following... and a lot of bad code. 🤦‍♂️

Then #VB more or less died out as an independent language but lives on as an embedded language in spreadsheets.

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@futurebird

#Excel #Microsoft

It sounds about right, though IDK about the $$$ part.

The only "error"/deviation I ever saw, if I remember correctly, was when the formula for counting cells with content started to count "" [nothing/empty] like " " and "0", erroneously as 1.

Old formulae (usually) continue working. Some time back, I had to verify that the calculations in a spreadsheet from 1995 were still correct. They were (b/c of now posterior human intervention 😉.)
#VisualBasic,...

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If I recall correctly, any given AMPS antenna could only handle about 400 #mobile phone calls at once, and there were usually three antennae spanning the 360º around a #cellular tower. Busy areas often dropped phone calls as users were handed off between antennae.

Hmm, the #VisualBasic function implementing the inverse Erlang-B formula on @wikipedia's “Erlang (unit)” page bears a striking resemblance to my 1994 code… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_( (5/6)