27 Jul
2006
27 Jul
'06
6:55 p.m.
From: Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com>
and people get especially weirded out when you count
on your fingers in
binary (up to 1023). Just reaching the number 4 upsets them.
By extention of this method, I should be able to count to 2097151. My wife,
unfortunately for her, can count only to 1048575.
:-)
Ken
28 Jul
28 Jul
3:32 p.m.
From: Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com>
But setting your MSB could be hard (!), at least if you don't want to
lose the states of the 10 lowest bits.
-tony
and people get especially weirded out when you
count on your fingers in
binary (up to 1023). Just reaching the number 4 upsets them.
By extention of this method, I should be able to count to 2097151. My wife,
unfortunately for her, can count only to 1048575. 
3:52 p.m.
By extention of this method, I should be able to count
to 2097151. My wife,
unfortunately for her, can count only to 1048575.
only in a benign climate.
The primary reason why we use base 10 instead of base 20 is because the
most agressively dominant of our ancestors came from climates where feet
stunk too much to be revealed in public.
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