I hope everyone's watching the genius of invention on bbc2 right now

Jan 24, 2013 28 Replies

That'll be the 1970s partition walls.

They do move when you're not looking, but it's probably down to overactive Facilities Management rather than Nimons.

Owain

they chose it, but it still surprises me that octal is used for it.

I like it. When my short-term memory was better I used to be able to

*multiply* in octal, for small numbers, but calculating the carries etc. needs a good memory.

I was going by this diagram:

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the main building is two octagons sharing a common side rather than two hexagons.

JGH

Oh I see. I was taking you too literally - that you were using the elements to identify the offices, rather than as a simile onto a map.

Andy

"What are those funny numbers with letters in them?"

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Sweet, what was the address ;-)

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