On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 at 09:20:12, Phoebus Dokos wrote:
(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
>At 09:07 рм 16/4/2002, you wrote:
>
>>I thought I'd share this one with you all - seeing as how there is no
>>Assembler Tutorial in the latest QL Taody.
>>
>>There are 10 kinds of people in this world -
>>Those who understand binary, and those who don't !!
>
>Good One! :-) Although given my recent experience I would phrase it:
>
>...11 kinds of people, those who understand binary, those who
>understand decimal and Phoebus who does neither ;-)
... but in saying that, you _prove_ you understand both, up to 3 fingers
at least (8-)#
While we are on the OT subject of number bases, everyone knows the
'answer' is 42. Now I read the book (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
for the first time recently, and near the end, we find the question is
"What is the answer to 6 times 9?"
Now 54 is 42 in base 13.
Richard Adams said that was simply a coincidence.....
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