From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
Subject: Re: Ada Connections to this Crypto.
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 16:17:17 +0000
Date: 2014-12-15T16:17:17+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <lyr3w028he.fsf@pushface.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dfc62625-dc73-4277-ac65-bbfaafe6c653@googlegroups.com
mrvmurray@gmail.com writes:
> Very many folks can do binary<->decimal conversion on their fingers,
> and binary<->hex conversions in their sleep.
People who programmed the Ferranti F1600 series of military computers
could count up to 31 on the fingers of one hand (the register-address
field in the instruction was 5 bits).
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2014-12-14 17:20 Ada Connections to this Crypto Austin Obyrne
2014-12-14 18:00 ` mrvmurray
2014-12-14 18:10 ` Björn Lundin
2014-12-14 18:42 ` mrvmurray
2014-12-14 20:28 ` Simon Wright
2014-12-14 21:00 ` mrvmurray
2014-12-15 8:50 ` Austin Obyrne
2014-12-15 10:06 ` mrvmurray
2014-12-16 11:47 ` john
2014-12-16 14:25 ` mrvmurray
2014-12-17 23:43 ` Simon Clubley
2014-12-18 1:07 ` Denis McMahon
2014-12-18 7:33 ` MM
2014-12-18 7:37 ` Austin Obyrne
2014-12-18 7:47 ` MM
2014-12-18 23:25 ` Denis McMahon
2014-12-19 8:07 ` MM
2014-12-19 8:09 ` Austin Obyrne
2014-12-19 8:24 ` MM
2014-12-19 9:02 ` Austin Obyrne
2014-12-19 9:13 ` MM
2014-12-19 9:50 ` Austin Obyrne
2014-12-19 10:18 ` MM
2014-12-19 16:49 ` Denis McMahon
2014-12-19 17:57 ` MM
2014-12-20 9:25 ` MM
2014-12-20 16:57 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2014-12-20 22:15 ` MM
2014-12-16 17:00 ` Austin Obyrne
2014-12-16 17:32 ` mrvmurray
2014-12-15 9:30 ` Austin Obyrne
2014-12-15 10:17 ` mrvmurray
2014-12-15 13:34 ` Austin Obyrne
2014-12-15 14:10 ` mrvmurray
2014-12-15 16:17 ` Simon Wright [this message]
2014-12-15 16:26 ` mrvmurray
2014-12-15 17:59 ` Austin Obyrne
2014-12-15 18:44 ` mrvmurray
2014-12-15 19:06 ` Mark Carroll
2014-12-16 8:53 ` Austin Obyrne
2014-12-16 9:43 ` mrvmurray
2014-12-23 1:37 ` Denis McMahon
2014-12-16 17:17 ` Austin Obyrne
2014-12-16 17:28 ` mrvmurray
2014-12-15 20:08 ` Shark8
2014-12-15 14:27 ` Mark Carroll
2014-12-15 15:02 ` mrvmurray
2014-12-15 19:49 ` erlo
2014-12-15 6:14 ` Denis McMahon
2014-12-15 9:02 ` Austin Obyrne
2014-12-15 10:19 ` mrvmurray
2014-12-15 16:02 ` Denis McMahon
2014-12-15 19:49 ` Pascal Obry
2014-12-16 8:58 ` Natasha Kerensikova
2014-12-15 21:53 ` Shark8
2014-12-16 3:22 ` Denis McMahon
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