[huskerlug] Re: A funny thing happened on the desktop today...

1028? isn't it 1023? one less than 2^10th?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary Kearney" <gkearney@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "HLUG Husker Linux Users Group" <huskerlug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 8:36 AM
Subject: [huskerlug] Re: A funny thing happened on the desktop today...


> Actually, I understand binary pretty well, and I even use it for counting
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> n my fingers. You can get all the way to 1028 decimal of course, which is
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> nough for almost any purpose. The thumb is the ones digit, index finger
dec=
> imal twos digit, ... etc. The problem is when I get to four or 128, people
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> think that I'm flipping them off, and of course at 132, I am flipping them
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> off.
>
> > On Tuesday 17 June 2003 03:39 pm, you wrote:
> > > Students are not really bright, that's why they're studying. The
> > > problem is=3D3D that a lot of them are studying how to become an
> > > alcoholic.Half the people=3D3D in the world are misinformed, half are
> > > idiots, half just don't care, and t=3D3D he other half is really poor
> > > at math.
> >
> > Well, you know what they say, "There are 10 kinds of people, those
who=3D=
> 20
> > understand binary and those who do not."
> >
> > >
> > > > I was helping a student today at my desk at UNL.  I was showing
> > > > him some physics stuff online with my Mandrake 9.0 workstation.
> > > >
> > > > Student: What operating system is that?  Is that Mac?
> > > >
> > > > Should I be worried?
> > > > --
> > > > Carl Lundstedt <clundst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > University of Nebraska
> > > >
> > > >
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