On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Mary Anne Matyaz<[email protected]> wrote:
> I am blonde, so take this with a grain of salt but....I don't get it. > 2009 = 7D9. > 20090328 = 1328dd8 > Admittedly I am not a math wizard. What am I missing? Haha. It must be me. I'm an alien and speak in riddles frequently. My inspiration in this case was the fact that the TOD clock in hex got an answer that was fairly close, so I wondered whether there was a date where the first 4 digits of the TOD in hex were the same as the actual TOD clock. I guess Dave is right that this would be at parties where people discuss the shortest program that produces its program text as output ;-) pipe literal C3F3C6F3C3F6C6F3 | spec w1 c2t 1 1.8 c2t nw | cons 2009-03-28 11:28:37.334892 2009-03-28 11:28:37.334892 So if Frank would have tried his pipeline on March 28, he would not have noticed the problem. Rob
