Every single-digit power of two is a homophone in English

I am not 2 hungry, 4 I 8 food I 1.

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And lo On Tue, 01 Feb 2011 19:50:46 -0000, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom>  
did spake thusly:

> Every single-digit power of two is a homophone in English
>
> I am not 2 hungry, 4 I 8 food I 1.

Which leads to the classic:

11 was a race horse
12 was one too.
11 won one race
12 won one too.

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On 02/02/2011 10:56 AM, Phil Cook v2 wrote:

> Which leads to the classic:
>
> 11 was a race horse
> 12 was one too.
> 11 won one race
> 12 won one too.

Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo.

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And lo On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 11:01:12 -0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> did  
spake thusly:

> On 02/02/2011 10:56 AM, Phil Cook v2 wrote:
>
>> Which leads to the classic:
>>
>> 11 was a race horse
>> 12 was one too.
>> 11 won one race
>> 12 won one too.
>
> Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo.

Though that's not number based, with punctuation and capitalisation I  
prefer

Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo, buffalo buffalo.

Though the following also makes sense to me.

Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo, buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo  
buffalo.

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Phil Cook

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"Phil Cook v2" <phi### [at] nospamrocainfreeservecouk> wrote:
> And lo On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 11:01:12 -0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> did
> spake thusly:
> > Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo.
>
> Though that's not number based, with punctuation and capitalisation I
> prefer
>
> Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo, buffalo buffalo.
>
> Though the following also makes sense to me.
>
> Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo, buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo
> buffalo.

Argh! Brain melted. I had to look up wikipedia's breakdown, and even then I had
to read it several times. Excellent.

:)

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On 02/02/2011 12:23 PM, Bill Pragnell wrote:

> Argh! Brain melted. I had to look up wikipedia's breakdown, and even then I had
> to read it several times. Excellent.

Ix -> x
Kxy -> x
Sfgx -> (fx)(gx)

Xa -> aSK

XX -> XSK -> (XS)K -> (SSK)K -> SSKK -> (SK)(KK) -> SK(KK) -> SK

X(XX) -> X(SK) -> (SK)SK -> SKSK -> (KK)(SK) -> KK(SK) -> K

X(X(XX)) -> X(K) -> KSK -> S

X(X(X(XX))) -> X(S) -> SSK ~= I
[since SKKx -> (Kx)(Kx) -> Kx(Kx) -> x]

Does your brain hurt yet?

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> Which leads to the classic:
>
> 11 was a race horse
> 12 was one too.
> 11 won one race
> 12 won one too.

or

11 was 1 race horse
22 was 12
1111 race
22112

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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Ix -> x

[snip etc]

> Does your brain hurt yet?

Nope, I have no frame of reference so it's meaningless to me. Knowing you, it's
probably esoteric mathematical notation. Or maybe a pronounciation guide ;)

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Bill Pragnell wrote:
> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> Ix -> x
> 
> [snip etc]
> 
>> Does your brain hurt yet?
> 
> Nope, I have no frame of reference so it's meaningless to me. 

Upper case is function names, lower case is arguments, -> is "returns".

Ix->x means there's a function I that takes an argument and returns it - 
identity.

Kxy -> x - K takes two arguments and returns the first. (This is the "K 
combinator" or something that some famous venture capitalist named his 
company after.)

Sfgx -> (fx)(gx) - Given functions f and g, apply f to x and g to x, and 
then apply the result of the first call (which is a function) the the result 
of the second call. I think.

Continue from there.


This is all normal "how to define a programming language formally" sorts of 
stuff. There are actual (obviously specialized) programming languages (like 
LOTOS) that you write this way.





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  "How did he die?"   "He got shot in the hand."
     "That was fatal?"
          "He was holding a live grenade at the time."

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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> This is all normal "how to define a programming language formally" sorts of
> stuff. There are actual (obviously specialized) programming languages (like
> LOTOS) that you write this way.

Cool, I thought it might be something like that. Not that esoteric if you're a
proper computer scientist! Me, I'm just a humble code monkey :)

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