From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jan 27 16:30:56 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 9B87337B400 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 16:30:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA03399; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:30:34 +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: Salvo Bartolotta Cc: Mike Meyer , 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> <14963.21950.110019.468965@guru.mired.org> <20010127.23473800@bartequi.ottodomain.org> <20010128.252500@bartequi.ottodomain.org> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 28 Jan 2001 01:30:34 +0100 In-Reply-To: Salvo Bartolotta's message of "Sun, 28 Jan 2001 00:25:25 GMT" Message-ID: Lines: 10 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 Salvo Bartolotta writes: > > 11111 in unary is 1*(1^0) + 1*(1^1) + 1*(1^2) + 1*(1^3) + 1*(1^4). > This ahem "system" is a little curious: eg how do you represent, erm, > 0 ? With bells (and whistles) ? :-) An empty string :) 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