From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jan 27 15:30:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDA4637B400 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 15:30:25 -0800 (PST) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA03115; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 00:30:20 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Mike Meyer Cc: Salvo Bartolotta , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OT again: Re: hexidecimal literacy References: <14963.8033.752142.149320@guru.mired.org> <20010127.20140200@bartequi.ottodomain.org> <14963.13797.116165.382738@guru.mired.org> <20010127.22394200@bartequi.ottodomain.org> <14963.22618.623392.355083@guru.mired.org> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 28 Jan 2001 00:30:16 +0100 In-Reply-To: Mike Meyer's message of "Sat, 27 Jan 2001 17:23:06 -0600 (CST)" Message-ID: Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mike Meyer writes: > Where did you find a computer that did calculations in N? Or some form > Z/n, even? Computers? I didn't say anything about computers :) Seriously, though, there are programming languages (ML for instance) that will let you define abstract types syntactically. (my mind is muddled, btw, I should have said Z instead of N; though it's common in CS to include 0 in N, I should know better) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message