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- From: pt@geovision.gvc.com (Paul Tomblin)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
- Subject: Re: base -2 arithmetic (was: Re: Trinary)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.141833.8753@geovision.gvc.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 14:18:33 GMT
- References: <1992Nov13.205443.19527@cubic.com> <1992Nov16.184432.2346@gdr.bath.ac.uk>
- Reply-To: pt@geovision.gvc.com
- Organization: Not officially GeoVision Systems Inc., Ottawa, Ontario
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- exspes@gdr.bath.ac.uk (P E Smee) writes:
- >In the referenced article, hees@cubic.com (Phil Hees) writes:
- >>pete@minster.york.ac.uk writes:
- >>>In article <3ug2TB6w165w@mertwig.UUCP> xyzzy@mertwig.UUCP (Daniel
- >>>Drucker) writes:
- >>>[signature claiming he's a genius]
- >>[Comment that he's not a genius, and he's probably offending those who are]
-
- >Close. I'd claim that REAL (TM) geniuses *knew* COBOL, realised why
- >they wished they didn't, and promptly forgot it, retaining only the
- >memory that they weren't supposed to learn it again.
-
- Actually, I'd claim a real genius is someone who _doesn't_ post a claim that
- a base `n' number system means that it uses the digits `0' through `n-1',
- and that therefore base `-2' is impossible, as our budding boy genius did a
- week or so ago.
-
- I've made a few factual errors on the net myself, but at least I never did
- them in a post with a sig claiming that I was a genius!
-
- --
- Paul Tomblin, pt@geovision.gvc.com
- (This is not an official opinion of GeoVision Systems Inc.)
- A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone
- -- Henry David Thoreau.
-