Hi :) There are only 10 types of people in the world Those who think in binary, and those who don't (err and a bit of a grey area where logic gates might or might not have been triggered so i guess that makes 11 types of people)
Sorry! I know it's not a good joke so it's great to have the opportunity to retell it! Thanks and regards from Tom :) On 13 August 2014 12:38, Keith Bates <[email protected]> wrote: > Of course! I don't think binary! > > Keith > > On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 09:42:12 +0100 > Brian Barker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > At 15:55 13/08/2014 +1000, Keith Bates wrote: > > >While I agree with most of your post, a slight typo or something > > >crept in here, where you confuse 10^53 with 2^53 > > > > > >>2^53 is one followed by fifty-three zeroes, of course - so is just > > >>too long to be stored accurately. > > > > I wasn't clear - but not in the way you thought! I meant that 2^53 is > > represented *in binary* (as it will be in the computer) as one > > followed by fifty-three zeroes, of course. So it's the value that is > > just too large to be stored accurately in double precision. (As so > > often happens, I spotted that omission just after I had sent the > > message!) > > > > Brian Barker > > > > > > > > -- > God bless you > Keith Bates > > Jesus is the Way, > the Truth and the Life. > Follow Him. > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
