From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,60e2922351e0e780 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-11-03 10:39:28 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.stueberl.de!proxad.net!usenet-fr.net!enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: "Alexandre E. Kopilovitch" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Clause "with and use" Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 20:37:19 +0300 (MSK) Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1067884595 48333 80.67.180.195 (3 Nov 2003 18:36:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 18:36:35 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Return-Path: In-Reply-To: ; from Lutz Donnerhacke at Mon, 3 Nov 2003 08:22:43 +0000 (UTC) X-Mailer: Mail/@ [v2.44 MSDOS] X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p5 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2006 Date: 2003-11-03T20:37:19+03:00 Lutz Donnerhacke wrote: > > I remember the place in Russian translation of Knuth' "The Art of Computer > > Programming", where Knuth said something like "it is generally possible that > > somewhere, for example, on Mars, one might design 3-base computer", and > > translation editor's footnote remarked that such a computer was actually > > designed and built in USSR. > > TAoCP, Vol. 2, Chapter 3 constains a paragraph about an implementation of an > tribinary computer ((1, 0, -1) as bits) from the former CCCP. Probably you have more recent edition of TAoCP (relating to the source for 1st Russian translation). Alexander Kopilovitch aek@vib.usr.pu.ru Saint-Petersburg Russia