From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 15 20:45:29 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 814251065670 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 20:45:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bf1783@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f54.google.com (mail-ew0-f54.google.com [209.85.215.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1565B8FC0A for ; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 20:45:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy21 with SMTP id 21so867323ewy.13 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 13:45:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:reply-to:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=bXNLw36d49oCmjF+n/0xL5wc0jVpj/vWlJWy2u4vgKg=; b=RzwGzQSnkAOGBHBYOAykbOZLmscbQGZjT4N2Xslg7xsYcj9wtCpjIgfJCbKoffevJ9 0881MC4AnlAfEycDcx75EvL79Q8jGXmvePGrLnUXHErQJvNMkCyGz/uMXglbUA/GdIWu 5UV6mQL+C5V5AstIcD/FhwhOekjLMYKJl+asM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc :content-type; b=nayX8k/LVDO49iHHvmUHoUyfRq1B5/6j4KOQ+c4fzjLp+tuKbD4DKV/9o6W6dOGcCw eDNze/ptuP+it2ow5BwwMNaxwrr/EGdwjU079nQ156uVlFpom35uoiPztpkKvxwPsCtd OI1TiFAVkprGj0VTdeVkENSFz/bFd2t0jjCNk= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.213.108.73 with SMTP id e9mr1999544ebp.36.1287174119765; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 13:21:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.14.53.70 with HTTP; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 13:21:59 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 20:21:59 +0000 Message-ID: From: "b. f." To: jhb@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Bug with powerof2 macro in sys/param.h X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: bf1783@gmail.com List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 20:45:29 -0000 >We aren't dealing with mathematicians, but programmers. I am attempting to reconcile this with Colin's rationale in terms of congruence classes over rings Z/nZ. ;) b.