Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>: > On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 8:08 PM, Gregory Ewing > <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: >> I think the idea is that you could regroup those 4 groups of 3 into 3 >> groups of 4, and get a nice mapping to hex. If hex had been the >> conventional way of writing binary numbers back then, Ken and Dennis >> would probably have done it that way. > > But they aren't "four groups of three" that could be reorganized. > They're three groups of three, plus three separate bits. Each group of > three is the permissions for one category of user (the owner, anyone > in the owning group, or everyone else).
"And on far-off Earth, Dr. Carlisle Perera had as yet told no one how he had wakened from a restless sleep with the message from his subconscious still echoing in his brain: The Ramans do everything in threes.W <URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendezvous_with_Rama> Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
