@anatudor
This reminds me of the first #ComputerProgram I wrote on my #Atari 400 (and stored on an audio cassette). I discovered that if I want to plot a circle with evenly spaced points, I have to define them in polar coordinates and then transform them into Cartesian before plotting.

@soxfaninsd

Funnily enough, I have a vivid memory of one of my teachers, Mrs Skelton, a bully, taking the school assembly, and, reading from a copy of #ReadersDigest, telling us about a #space mission where a #ComputerProgram had a single hyphen in the wrong place and caused a rocket to rapidly disassemble.

This story filled my 9 year old mind with #awe, #wonder, and #terror. I'm not sure what the moral of the story was, but I am now a programmer, who has worked on #SafetyCriticalSystems.