From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: The next exercise Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2022 05:45:22 +0100 Message-ID: <87tu1q7kf1.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <87tu24tmv6.fsf@web.de> <574c1ceba8d5f62d3c07@heytings.org> <87edt8tklz.fsf@web.de> <574c1ceba8ee790f5f45@heytings.org> <87r0x8s3le.fsf@web.de> <87a63wuv1t.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87lendo15a.fsf@web.de> <87k02tute0.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87mt7omf31.fsf@web.de> <87r0wynan0.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87a63l3706.fsf@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="1998"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:DCbSfcFkuZBAzAFKlscDW25WCOI= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 20 21:40:07 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1p7jPB-0000Cq-QJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 20 Dec 2022 21:40:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p7jON-0005fR-29; Tue, 20 Dec 2022 15:39:15 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p7UVT-0005dX-3F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Dec 2022 23:45:35 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p7UVR-0005tm-4f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Dec 2022 23:45:34 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1p7UVN-0002DM-HK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Dec 2022 05:45:29 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 20 Dec 2022 15:39:14 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:141886 Archived-At: 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