--- On Thu, 12/3/09, Dave the Modest <[email protected]> wrote:
> Oops, I
> lied... Each 4-bit word
> represented a decimal digit between 0 and NINE (1001), not
> 10. Jeez, I feel like a dufus!
Not as bad as the hexadecimal gaffe in the original edition of "Encounter With
Tiber" where it was stated that hexadecimal counted from 1 to E.
When I read that, my though was "Buzz Aldrin went to the moon on a computer
controlled spaceship! He should know that it's 0 to F!"
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