"Claus Reinke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> then again, Jane Austen was happy enough writing about her
> characters not being "one and twenty", so perhaps that is just a
> lost art?-)
>
I'm quite content as long as I'm not "four twenty nineteen".
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On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 20:59 +0200, Henning Thielemann wrote:
. . .
> Interesting to know what jokes are told about Germans. 8-] So, do English
> professors save their prepositions for the end of a lecture?
This seems peculiarly apropos:
I lately lost a preposition.
It hid, I thought, b
Claus Reinke wrote:
Germans have no problems with sentences which though started at
the beginning when observed closely and in the light of day (none of
which adds anything to the content of the sentence in which the very
parenthetical remark you -dear reader- are reading at this very moment
whil
> So I've always wondered, if you are writing down a number being dictated
> (slowly) by someone else, like 234, do you write the 2, then leave space and
> write the 4, then go back and fill in with 3? Or do you push the 4 onto the
> stack until the 3 arrives, and write 34 at once.
My German profe
On 14 May 2008, at 2:13 PM, Claus Reinke wrote:
It's not that simple with bits. They lack consistency just
like the
usual US date format and the way Germans read numbers.
So you claim that you pronounce 14 tenty-four? In German
pronunciation
is completely uniform from 13 to 99.
http://w
It's not that simple with bits. They lack consistency just like the
usual US date format and the way Germans read numbers.
So you claim that you pronounce 14 tenty-four? In German pronunciation
is completely uniform from 13 to 99.
http://www.verein-zwanzigeins.de/
So I've always wondered, i
Henning Thielemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Of course, we write down 243, realize the mistake and rewrite the
> number. :-) Actually, many pupils have problems with the mixed order
> of digits and give solutions like this one in examinations:
>8 * 8 = 46
> because they write the digits a
On Wed, 14 May 2008, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
On 2008 May 14, at 14:34, Dan Weston wrote:
So I've always wondered, if you are writing down a number being dictated
(slowly) by someone else, like 234, do you write the 2, then leave space
and write the 4, then go back and fill in with 3
On Wed, 14 May 2008, Dan Weston wrote:
Henning Thielemann wrote:
http://www.verein-zwanzigeins.de/
So I've always wondered, if you are writing down a number being dictated
(slowly) by someone else, like 234, do you write the 2, then leave space and
write the 4, then go back and fill in wi
On 2008 May 14, at 14:34, Dan Weston wrote:
So I've always wondered, if you are writing down a number being
dictated (slowly) by someone else, like 234, do you write the 2,
then leave space and write the 4, then go back and fill in with 3?
Or do you push the 4 onto the stack until the 3 ar
Henning Thielemann wrote:
On Tue, 13 May 2008, Achim Schneider wrote:
Jed Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It's not that simple with bits. They lack consistency just like the
usual US date format and the way Germans read numbers.
So you claim that you pronounce 14 tenty-four? In German pr
Henning Thielemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 13 May 2008, Achim Schneider wrote:
>
> > Jed Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> It's not that simple with bits. They lack consistency just like
> >> the usual US date format and the way Germans read numbers.
> >>
> > So you claim
On Tue, 13 May 2008, Achim Schneider wrote:
Jed Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It's not that simple with bits. They lack consistency just like the
usual US date format and the way Germans read numbers.
So you claim that you pronounce 14 tenty-four? In German pronunciation
is completely u
On 2008-05-13, Andrew Coppin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Aaron Denney wrote:
>> On 2008-05-12, Andrew Coppin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> (Stupid little-endian nonsense... mutter mutter...)
>>>
>>
>> I used to be a big-endian advocate, on the principle that it doesn't
>> really matter
On Tue 2008-05-13 22:14, Achim Schneider wrote:
> Jed Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > It's not that simple with bits. They lack consistency just like the
> > usual US date format and the way Germans read numbers.
> >
> So you claim that you pronounce 14 tenty-four? In German pronunciation
Jed Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It's not that simple with bits. They lack consistency just like the
> usual US date format and the way Germans read numbers.
>
So you claim that you pronounce 14 tenty-four? In German pronunciation
is completely uniform from 13 to 99.
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Am Dienstag, 13. Mai 2008 21:28 schrieb Aaron Denney:
> On 2008-05-13, Ketil Malde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Jed Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> This, of course, is because `od -x' regards the input as 16-bit
> >> integers. We can get saner output if we regard it is 8-bit integers.
> >
On 2008-05-13, Jed Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > Now I'm convinced that little endian is the way to go, as bit number n
>> > should have value 2^n, byte number n should have value 256^n, and so forth.
>
> It's not that simple with bits. They lack consistency just like the
> usual US date f
On 2008-05-13, Ketil Malde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jed Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> This, of course, is because `od -x' regards the input as 16-bit integers. We
>> can get saner output if we regard it is 8-bit integers.
>
> Yes, of course. The point was that for big-endian, the word
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