[Sussex] Redeham, Coinford/Claybrook was :Dell.. again

[Macdonald-Wallace, Matthew J]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Steve Dobson [mailto:SDobson at manh.com]
>Sent: 05 March 2003 16:44
>To: 'sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk'
>Subject: RE: [Sussex] Redeham, Coinford/Claybrook was :Dell.. again
>
>Mat
>
>On 05 March 2003 at 16:32 Macdonald-Wallace, Matthew J wrote: 
>> >0\ It's far from round.
>> >1\ The Paymaster General nolonger has anything to do with the area.
>> 
>> The man's even counting in binary now!  Doesn't that mean 
>> something to you people? :oP
>
>No he's counting from the integer you can represent physically,
>which is correct - C, C++ and Java to name but three programs start
>their array indexes at 0.
>
>Until he moves into a number represented as a*X^2 + b we can't
>tell which base he is using.
>

Godd point, and well made sah! :o)

>Let's start a book.
>I vote for octal.

Having originally voted for binary, I now wish to change my mind to Hex. (is
that allowed?)

>The prise: Geoff copy of "The C Programming Language" :-)

Cool, an award too! :oP

Matt