Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 17:42:06 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@inwind.it>, Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OT again: Re: hexidecimal literacy Message-ID: <20010128174206.C55504@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <xzp7l3gplg5.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from des@ofug.org on Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 01:30:34AM %2B0100 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> <xzpbssspmes.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20010128.252500@bartequi.ottodomain.org> <xzp7l3gplg5.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 01:30:34AM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Salvo Bartolotta<bartequi@inwind.it> 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 :) But since bc(1) does not use some form of "quoting" to its output, you would not be able to tell if the result of the following is `zero' or a really empty string meaning `no result'. $ ( echo "obase=1" ; echo "" ) | bc and the output would be exactly the same as that for: $ ( echo "obase=1" ; echo "0" ) | bc giorgos >}:-} To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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