If you want to be extremely extremely pedantic, computers only know voltage differential. Those voltage differentials are just cleverly organized into logic gates, which it is useful (currently) to represent with binary numbers and basic arithmetical operations.
Judah On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Andrew Scott <andr...@andyscott.id.au> wrote: > > No, if you want to be extremely pedantic about it. Computers only know 0 and > 1's. So by that logic it knows zero before it knows one. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Claude Schnéegans <schneeg...@internetique.com> > [mailto:=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Claude_Schn=E9egans <schneeg...@interneti=71?= > =?ISO-8859-1?Q?ue.com=3E?=] > Sent: Friday, 9 July 2010 10:31 PM > To: cf-talk > Subject: Re: Looking for a CF Recipe script! > > > >>Nobody calls their thumb their "zeroth" finger. > > Sure, but computers do not count on their fingers... > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:335285 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
