31 Jan
2015
31 Jan
'15
11:31 a.m.
Watch out Tony, you're getting infected with my machine's mysterious zeroes
bug! Dropping bits and stuff!
On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 5:51 AM, Peter Coghlan <cctalk at beyondthepale.ie>
wrote:
David Griffith wrote:
On Fri, 30 Jan 2015, tony duell wrote:
On 29 January 2015 at 21:45, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
^^^^
I'm going to add "zerp" to my list of synonyms for "zero".
Maybe zerp is one of the zeros in ones compliment, the other being zern?
>
> > And then store them in the dark in a vacuum at 0 degrees kelvin?
> >
> No, the outgassing of volatiles would be a problem...
>
Technically there should be no out gassing at 0 Kelvin.... ;)
Ah yes, but then there are the 3 laws of thermodynamics which have been
expressed as :
1st : You can't win, you can only break even
2nd : You can only break even at absolute zero
3rd : You can't get to absolute zerp
--
David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
(Some years ago, a colleague told me I was confusing the customers by not
putting my replies at the top. Thanks for providing a nice logical
summary of
the subject to show to him instead of my having to figure out how to
penetrate
an upside down mind :-)
Regards,
Peter Coghlan.