From: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: The next exercise
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2022 05:45:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tu1q7kf1.fsf@dataswamp.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87a63l3706.fsf@web.de
Michael Heerdegen wrote:
>>> Still too mathematical maybe. Wait - it's the largest number
>>> a calculator using 8 796 093 022 208 binary digits
>>> can express.
>>
>> That's right! \o/
>>
>> It is the number you get from one terabyte of data - or
>> technically 1 TiB - with all the bits set, i.e.
>>
>> 1111111111111 ... [just kidding]
>
> Ah - very nice that you made my answer count.
>
> If I ever need to save this number to disk, I know now that
> it's possible ;-)
I'm sorry you had to say that last thing because ... actually
that's the (b) question part, to implement it in practice.
Because otherwise, what signal do we send to the Emacs and Elisp
community? That only theory counts? And we can't have
that ... obviously.
:)
--
underground experts united
https://dataswamp.org/~incal
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-20 4:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-09 19:09 The next exercise Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-09 19:42 ` tomas
2022-12-09 20:38 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-10 2:09 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-10 6:18 ` tomas
2022-12-10 7:28 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-10 2:05 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-09 19:44 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-12-09 19:58 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-09 20:19 ` tomas
2022-12-09 20:33 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-12-09 20:51 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-09 21:27 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-12 1:34 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-15 5:29 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-15 22:24 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-15 23:17 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-16 1:16 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-17 0:20 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-18 0:11 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-20 4:45 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2022-12-11 19:48 ` Andy Moreton
2022-12-12 1:39 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-15 10:47 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-10 2:25 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-09 20:43 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-09 21:29 ` Michael Heerdegen
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