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[Pig Wiki] Update of "PigUserCookbook" by FlipKromer

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Types landed yays

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  ''' Use Types '''
  
- This feature is only available in the new code currently accessible from types branch: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/hadoop/pig/branches/types/.
+ This feature is only available in the new code currently accessible from types feature (which landed on the main branch in early January: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/hadoop/pig/trunk/).
  
  If types are not specified in the load statement, Pig assumes the type of =double= for numeric computations. A lot of the time, your data would be much smaller, maybe, integer or long. Specifying the real type will help with speed of arithmetic computation. It has an additional advantage of early error detection.