On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Elardus Engelbrecht <[email protected]> wrote: > Dale Miller kindly wrote: > >>> zMan on 15 June told about two clueless CS PhD's. A few years ago, my > friend an I were getting a lot of chuckles out the cluelessness of a CS > textbook, but we were reduced to uncontrollable laughter when the author > showed an example of doing a payroll using an array, and concluded the > exercise with the statement: "Of course, in the real world a file might > consist > of hundreds of records." > > How many hundreds? 1, thousand, gazillion, 'uncountable many'[1]? :-D > > John Chase very kindly wrote: >>What, you haven't seen small files on big computers before? :-) > How about 600,000,000 SSNs for past and current U.S. Citizens, and 200,000,000 each month's contributions or payouts?
> Be a nice sport and define for us 'small file'? ;-D > > Is it anything bigger than 8 bits (1 byte)? > > Groete / Greetings > Elardus Engelbrecht > [1] - I could not write the mathematical symbol 'lemniscate' (infinity) > here... Tests: (X) (><) (=><=) OXO 0X0 oxo 0-0 I don't see a clear drawing of it.. 1/0 might be best. -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
