Re: and becomes or and or becomes and

2011-05-28 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 11:31 PM, Nobody wrote: > Not Python, but: > >        #define SIX  1 + 5 >        #define NINE 8 + 1 >        ... >        printf("six times nine is: %d\n", SIX * NINE); *AWESOME*!! That is brilliant! DNA FTW. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-lis

Re: and becomes or and or becomes and

2011-05-28 Thread Nobody
On Sun, 22 May 2011 15:39:33 -0700, Tim Roberts wrote: > That IS funny. Interesting how a careful choice of arugments will fool us. > One of my favorite math jokes is like that. A teacher asked a student to > reduce the following fraction: > 16 > > 64 > > He says "all I have to do is

Re: and becomes or and or becomes and

2011-05-28 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 10:27 PM, bch wrote: > And of course, a programmer cannot tell the difference between > Halloween and Christmas day. Well known, of course. But a lot of modern programmers don't speak octal, they only use another power-of-two base; it's as though someone's cast a hex on th

Re: and becomes or and or becomes and

2011-05-28 Thread bch
On May 23, 11:30 pm, rusi wrote: > On May 23, 5:30 am, Steven D'Aprano > > > +comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > > On Sun, 22 May 2011 15:39:33 -0700, Tim Roberts wrote: > > > Stef Mientki wrote: > > > >>must of us will not use single bits these days, but at first sight, this > > >>looks f

Re: and becomes or and or becomes and

2011-05-23 Thread rusi
On May 23, 5:30 am, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sun, 22 May 2011 15:39:33 -0700, Tim Roberts wrote: > > Stef Mientki wrote: > > >>must of us will not use single bits these days, but at first sight, this > >>looks funny : > > > a=2 > > b=6 > > a and b > >>6 > > a & b > >>2 > >

Re: and becomes or and or becomes and

2011-05-23 Thread Colin J. Williams
On 22-May-11 15:23 PM, Stef Mientki wrote: hello, must of us will not use single bits these days, but at first sight, this looks funny : a=2 b=6 a and b 6 a& b 2 a or b 2 a | b 6 cheers, Stef 5.2. Boolean Operations — and, or, not These are the Boolean operations, ordered by ascendi

Re: and becomes or and or becomes and

2011-05-22 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 22 May 2011 15:39:33 -0700, Tim Roberts wrote: > Stef Mientki wrote: >> >>must of us will not use single bits these days, but at first sight, this >>looks funny : >> > a=2 > b=6 > a and b >>6 > a & b >>2 > a or b >>2 > a | b >>6 > > That IS funny. Interesting how

Re: and becomes or and or becomes and

2011-05-22 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Tim Roberts wrote: > That IS funny.  Interesting how a careful choice of arugments will fool us. > One of my favorite math jokes is like that.  A teacher asked a student to > reduce the following fraction: >  16 >   >  64 > > He says "all I have to do is cancel

Re: and becomes or and or becomes and

2011-05-22 Thread Tim Roberts
Stef Mientki wrote: > >must of us will not use single bits these days, >but at first sight, this looks funny : > a=2 b=6 a and b >6 a & b >2 a or b >2 a | b >6 That IS funny. Interesting how a careful choice of arugments will fool us. One of my favorite math jokes i

Re: and becomes or and or becomes and

2011-05-22 Thread Terry Reedy
On 5/22/2011 5:57 PM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote: Stef Mientki wrote: must of us will not use single bits these days, but at first sight, this looks funny : a=2 b=6 a and b 6 a& b 2 a or b 2 a | b 6 Change the order of the operands and see what happens. or change a,b to 1,2

Re: and becomes or and or becomes and

2011-05-22 Thread Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn
Stef Mientki wrote: > must of us will not use single bits these days, > but at first sight, this looks funny : > a=2 b=6 a and b > 6 a & b > 2 a or b > 2 a | b > 6 Change the order of the operands and see what happens. -- PointedEars Bitte keine Kopien per E-Mail

and becomes or and or becomes and

2011-05-22 Thread Stef Mientki
hello, must of us will not use single bits these days, but at first sight, this looks funny : >>> a=2 >>> b=6 >>> a and b 6 >>> a & b 2 >>> a or b 2 >>> a | b 6 cheers, Stef -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list