Per Cindy Hamilton:
A bit like Canada?
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Thermometers: What's the Problem with Accuracy?
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0100 0110 0111
I considered 0723 to be in octal. 0x1D3 is the same number expressed in hex (as C uses). $1D3 (hex) and %000111010011 (binary) are the representations used by the home computer I had in the eighties. The one that didn't get quoted is the Unicode character with this value.
Here are some others (as in the 8080 assembler I used in college):
456 723q 1D3h 000111010011bHex that starts with A-F needs a leading 0. Octal is 'q' since too many people confuse 'o' with a digit.
There's also 79A
Also I knew what it meant when I told my computer to "PRINT 4 OR 6" and it printed 7. BTW, the first program I wrote finds the square root of a number, starting by assuming it's 10.
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The best thermometer is the penis.
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I get the feeling you have a lot of intelligence which you use for absurd purposes.
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The current temperature is 5.4 * 10^10 nanodegrees F.
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They did when I was in school in the seventies. Not much for the more intelligent, though.
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On Mon, 05 Feb 2018 01:04:02 -0000, Uncle Monster w= rote:
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: 50% humidity is more comfortable 72=B0F at 90% humidity. I serviced and= installed HVAC systems back when I was doing service work for businesse= s. I like 2 stage AC systems because they control humidity much better. = The newest more advanced(more expensive) HVAC systems are variable givin= g a more precise control of humidity. ^_^Humidity really doesn't bother me at all. What is it with your wimps?
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But both of you are pathetic.
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Look up SI units and educate yourself.
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Stop using silly acronyms.
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Americans can't do decimals, they only learn math instead of maths.
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I don't, I tell them to use proper measurements.
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This is probably why nobody in the US is very clever.
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I can. Maybe you forgot to add "most".
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Maybe you forgot to read between the lines. I guess I shouldn't expect Americans to understand the finer points of English.
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Hex is definitely more fun. I can use 0xDeadBeef and 0xCafeBabe to flag uninitialized integers.
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Binary good. We use for debug flags.
#define PRINT_DEBUG 1
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We built the world you're living in. Your turn to screw it up.
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My high school was structured that way. The business/shop kids took Spanish and typing; I took German and calculus. In the course of my life Spanish and typing would have been a lot more useful. After dcades of programming I still type with about 5 fingers and am completely screwed if the letters wear off the keys. I sometimes can understand German tourists in the National Parks, but not 65% of the California people.
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Definitely. The high school I went to did an end run with a 'Enriched Curriculum' program. The smart kids didn't see much of the general population. The holidays were a bonus. Since about a third were Jewish plus some Jewish teachers between Hannukah and Christmas December was shot. Throw in Little Christmas for the Russian Orthodox and you could whittle a little bit of January away too.