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Warp wrote:
> There are 10 types of people: Those who understand binary and those
> who don't.
2 + 2 is ... 10.....
... IN BASE 4! I'm *FINE*!
--
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
Remember the good old days, when we
used to complain about cryptography
being export-restricted?
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"Darren New" wrote:
> 2 + 2 is ... 10.....
>
> ... IN BASE 4! I'm *FINE*!
It did annoy me that that joke doesn't really make sense when spoken out
loud. "10" can mean many different numbers but "ten" cannot.
Rune
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Sabrina Kilian <"ykgp at vtSPAM.edu"> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> > Stephen <mcavoys_AT_aolDOT.com> wrote:
> >> Are you sure? OCT 31st is the old Keltic ?New Year? not Xmas. :) :)
> >> Are you going out guising tonight?
> >
> > There are 10 types of people: Those who understand binary and those
> > who don't.
> >
>
> There are actually 10 types of people: Those who understand trinary,
> those who think it's binary, and those who don't understand either.
Somehow I am reminded of this:
He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool. Shun him. He who
knows not and knows that he knows not is a child. Teach him. He who knows and
knows not that he knows is asleep. Wake him. He who knows and knows that he
knows is a wise man. Follow him.
I don't know why :)
Stephen
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"Stephen" <mcavoys_AT_aolDOT.com> wrote in message
news:web.4729ab28788aa1f5c4e49fa40@news.povray.org...
>
> Somehow I am reminded of this:
>
> He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool. Shun him. He
> who
> knows not and knows that he knows not is a child. Teach him. He who knows
> and
> knows not that he knows is asleep. Wake him. He who knows and knows that
> he
> knows is a wise man. Follow him.
>
> I don't know why :)
Noe's nose knows no's.
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Tim Cook <z99### [at] bellsouth net> wrote:
> wa ha
>
Funnily enough, I actually dressed as Santa Claus for my Halloween costume, just
to throw people off :)
....Chambers
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Rune wrote:
> "Darren New" wrote:
>> 2 + 2 is ... 10.....
>>
>> ... IN BASE 4! I'm *FINE*!
>
> It did annoy me that that joke doesn't really make sense when spoken out
> loud. "10" can mean many different numbers but "ten" cannot.
Actually, it makes perfect sense. The computer has been hit by a number
of missiles. It says "Two plus two is ten." It then tries to pretend it
didn't make a mistake, in a rather lame and transparent way. The joke
isn't supposed to make sense. The joke is that it's a lame attempt at
pretending everything is just fine. :-)
--
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
Remember the good old days, when we
used to complain about cryptography
being export-restricted?
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Darren New wrote:
> 2 + 2 is ... 10.....
>
> ... IN BASE 4! I'm *FINE*!
I thought it sounded more like "in base 4 I'm FINE!", but anyway...
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Darren New wrote:
> Rune wrote:
>> "Darren New" wrote:
>>> 2 + 2 is ... 10.....
>>>
>>> ... IN BASE 4! I'm *FINE*!
>>
>> It did annoy me that that joke doesn't really make sense when spoken
>> out loud. "10" can mean many different numbers but "ten" cannot.
>
> Actually, it makes perfect sense. The computer has been hit by a number
> of missiles. It says "Two plus two is ten." It then tries to pretend it
> didn't make a mistake, in a rather lame and transparent way. The joke
> isn't supposed to make sense. The joke is that it's a lame attempt at
> pretending everything is just fine. :-)
Somebody somewhere wrote that "Windows 98 is like an old guy sitting in
the corner who pees himself and then tries to pretend there's nothing
wrong"...
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On 31 Oct 2007 10:40:11 -0500, Warp wrote:
> Stephen <mcavoys_AT_aolDOT.com> wrote:
>> What reminded you of that, do you remember BCD?
>
> Has it ever been used anywhere since the 60's or something?
Yes, NES games used it often in particular for most of the numeral
information shown to players (such as the score). Though even more
often, they encoded each decimal digit in a single byte.
--
Joel Yliluoma - http://iki.fi/bisqwit/
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Joel Yliluoma wrote:
> Yes, NES games used it often in particular for most of the numeral
> information shown to players (such as the score).
If the majority of your use of the number is display, BCD makes sense.
(It's how phone numbers are encoded over X.25 and SS7 et al, also.)
The 6502 at least had a BCD math instruction.
> Though even more
> often, they encoded each decimal digit in a single byte.
That *is* BCD. "Packed BCD" is two BCD digits per octet. :-)
--
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
Remember the good old days, when we
used to complain about cryptography
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