And if you want to just go way too far-- these logic gates are actually only aware of the current flowing through their traces which is pushed by the voltage and inversely proportional to the resistance in the circuit per Ohm's law. Current is measured in amperes whereas one amp-second is a coulomb of electrical charge, or 6.241E18 electrons flowing through the conductor. So the real question is this: when your computer starts counting all those electrons does it start at 1 as the first one flows by?
I believe the answer is yes, so it turns out CF was right after all. ~Brad ----- Original Message ----- From: "Judah McAuley" <[email protected]> To: "cf-talk" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 11:13 PM Subject: Re: Looking for a CF Recipe script! > > 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 <[email protected]> > 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 <[email protected]> >> [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:335289 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
