On Tue, 18 Jan 2022, 15:25 John Cremona, <john.crem...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2022 at 13:53, Samuel Lelievre <samuel.lelie...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > 2022-01-18 10:54:34 UTC, John Cremona: > > > > > > I see that there are now over 2^32 trac tickets. > > > > The power of two that is near 32000 is really 2^15. > > : ) > > You are right of course. We had 16-bit arithmetic so the max was > 32767 (and min -32768). I still managed somehow to find the primes up > to 10^5 (using trial division, but I was only about 16, the programs > were on punched cards and I only got about one run a day which meant > that compiler syntax errors were very unwelcome. > I also learned to program with punchcards. Various modern CI systems such as Travis CI and GitHub Actions remind me of submitting jobs on punchcards, to be run on a clone of IBM OS360. Although IBM's JCL was way worse than yml/yaml/toml used for CI configs :-) > > I had better shut up. You can always watch the video from a Sage Days > in 2011 (https://wiki.sagemath.org/days29)! > > John > > > > > > Wow. When I started computing you couldn't > > > have integers greater than 32767... > > > > Good thing we can now. > > > > Here's to many more Sage tickets to come! --Samuel > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "sage-devel" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/3f822385-58a6-4438-9cb7-6fed2b2f436cn%40googlegroups.com > . > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CAD0p0K6JDR5Xm8TY1i1BdmEAaVTrN-Czmh9AB%2Bo1zB1m6MUDSg%40mail.gmail.com > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CAAWYfq2-cmTK%3DXC5eyaQw5foFYDAmxGHY1cjgKpzaucR5Ac%3Dtg%40mail.gmail.com.
