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Re: Microsoft can't count!

From: "Morgan Gangwere" <0 dot fractalus at gmail dot com>
To: "The Vulgar and extremely highly Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List (now with more jolt cola)" <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:09:11 -0600
Subject: Re: Microsoft can't count!
References: <002301c7f95d$9e63bdc0$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> <31DDB7BE4BF41D4888D41709C476B657068AB593@NIHCESMLBX5.nih.gov>
Reply-to: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>

> But isn't that how computers work?  In base 2, the only digits are 0 and 1 so both 3 and 4 are undefined, meaningless, and, therefore, effectively identical.
>

but thanks to math, 3=0! therfore, 4=0! (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invalid_proof#Proof_that_3.3D0 )

M$ must be using Hex Math... where -1=N
-- 
Morgan gangwere

Please Excuse TOFU. Gmail/Mobile has no Power.

"Space does not reflect society, it expresses it." -- Castells, M.,
Space of Flows, Space of Places: Materials for a Theory of Urbanism in
the Information Age, in The Cybercities Reader, S. Graham, Editor.
2004, Routledge: London. p. 82-93.

References:
- RE: Microsoft can't count!
  - From: Dave Korn
- RE: Microsoft can't count!
  - From: Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]

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