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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,be7fa91648ac3f12 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news2.google.com!newsread.com!news-xfer.newsread.com!nntp.abs.net!news-FFM2.ecrc.net!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!grolier!freenix!news.wanadoo.fr!news.wanadoo.fr!not-for-mail Sender: obry@PASCAL Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Large arrays (again), problem case for GNAT References: <9wl1x46enupu.15kru9o6o3yqt.dlg@40tude.net> From: Pascal Obry Date: 14 Apr 2005 20:30:49 +0200 Message-ID: Organization: Home - http://www.obry.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Date: 14 Apr 2005 20:30:52 CEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.120.21.101 X-Trace: 1113503452 news.wanadoo.fr 19326 82.120.21.101:1488 X-Complaints-To: abuse@wanadoo.fr Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10472 Date: 2005-04-14T20:30:52+02:00 List-Id: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" writes: > Is there anything smaller than one bit? (:-)) Yes a weak-bit :) Do you remember the time of floppy disk. A specific copy protection was to read/write many time at the same address a 0 and a 1. After some time when reading at this specific location you got either a 0 or a 1. This was use as a copy-protection by some softwares. Amazinlgy Copywrite (a nice copy tool at this time) was able to reproduce a weak-bit. So somehow yes a weak-bit was smaller than a plain-bit :) Should I add that this is plain OT ! Pascal. -- --|------------------------------------------------------ --| Pascal Obry Team-Ada Member --| 45, rue Gabriel Peri - 78114 Magny Les Hameaux FRANCE --|------------------------------------------------------ --| http://www.obry.net --| "The best way to travel is by means of imagination" --| --| gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-key C1082595