Mr Forsyth would often say: “That was the moment of conception of the Isle of Eigg Trust. At a baronial banquet!”

My first game for Rangers was – you'll never guess – against Motherwell at Fir Park. I kept giving the ball to Motherwell players." Tom Forsythis looking build on the already well-established Sika brand in the UK in his new role as General Manager, with the company aiming to achieve 15% growth in net sales whilst maintaining profitability levels. People watching games probably wonder what it’s like, but words can’t describe it. I think you have to experience it to be able to know what it’s all about and, of course, not too many get the chance.”They all say I nearly missed it but I tapped it in and they can’t take it away from me. Derek did all the hard work by heading it off both posts, but I got the goal and the credit, which was unusual.” Ideally every programmer should know the basics of floating-point numerical precision. Any time you do a subtract (or an add, implicitly), consider what happens when the two numbers are very close together, e.g. 1.0000011 - 1.0. The result of this is going to be roughly 0.0000011 of course, but the "roughly" is going to be pretty rough. In general you only get about six-and-a-bit decimal digits of precision from floats (2

Ask wee Tam, for whom he served riding shotgun through the management years at Morton, Motherwell and Hearts. They were some double act who would tag-team weary reporters like this one. And verbally have a go like a dog with a rag doll. But still come up smiling. Well, nearly always. Taking up the challenge and hoping to catch him out, the wily Scot goes up to the shaman and asks: "Who won the Scottish Cup Final in 1973?"

In 2018, Tom assumed additional responsibilities for managing the Everbuild brand – A Sika Company, playing a key role in its integration, establishing this area of the business as a substantial part of Sika Limited, with record growth in sales and profitability. Linda died in March 2019; Tom Forsyth passed away following a long illness bravely borne. They are survived by son David and daughters Karen and Julie. After a night in Dingwall jail, he was referred to Craig Dunain hospital’s legendary psychiatrist, Martin Whittett. “You’re not mad,” said Whittett, in a cheery conversation. “I’ll put you down as … religious mania.” Despite arriving as a centre-half and going on to make his name in that position, he initially played as an inside-forward and netted 17 goals in his breakthrough season as Motherwell won the Second Division. Sika has appointed Tom Forsyth as General Manager, a role that it says will see him build on the continued growth of the company across its multiple UK markets.

messageArea {position:fixed; top:2em; right:0; margin:0.5em; padding:0.5em; z-index:2000; _position:absolute;} This was not to forget the big world outside. Rather, as he later wrote, it was “to become more fully human”. But, “little did I dream of what sort of break up/down/through I was to go through to become fit for that vision.” Floating-point numbers are brilliant - they have decent precision and a large range. But they still only have 32 bits, so there's still only 4billion different ones (actually there's fewer than that if you ignore all the varieties of ~NANs, assume infs are basically bugs, and turn off denormals because they're agonisingly slow). So they have tradeoffs and weaknesses just like everything else. You need to know what they are, and what happens for example when you subtract one small number from another - you get imprecision. I lifted my seven-year-old brother over the turnstile and my mates helped with "shoulder" duty during the game. I loved the guy! My son and I were discussing "real" centre half's during the Barca game midweek and I just thought that Tam wrote that particular book.

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RIP Tam Forsyth. You were one of the inspirations of many a young football hopeful, and inspire you did. Sad to hear you're gone and condolences to your family. Forsyth made 326 appearances for Gers and won three league championships, four Scottish Cups and two League cups,