On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 3:56 AM, Gregg Eshelman <[email protected]> wrote:
> --- On Thu, 12/3/09, Dave the Modest <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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!"

Maybe he was using one of them pentium-thingies that couldn't handle F :)

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