pedantics is not a bad thingit's impossible to tell, as we've shown here, whether people make mistakes through a typing error or through not knowing.
Pointing out the facts means that they will learn if they didn't know, but if they already know they may take offence at the person thinking they didn't know.
Binary means in two's bi = 2 essentially and following on from that denary is in 10's like decimal, oct is 8 (like october the 10th month ;) but you know oct already from octagons and suchforth.
I am very much a Hitchhiker's fan so no problems in getting that quote.
Night night.
(Pointing out the facts means that they will learn if they didn't know, but if they already know they may take offence at the person thinking they didn't know.
Binary means in two's bi = 2 essentially and following on from that denary is in 10's like decimal, oct is 8 (like october the 10th month ;) but you know oct already from octagons and suchforth.
I am very much a Hitchhiker's fan so no problems in getting that quote.
Night night.
Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology,
Thu 23 Jan 2003, 4:32,
archived)
October, of courseIS the eighth month.
If you happen to be a Roman.
(If you happen to be a Roman.
Natt,
Thu 23 Jan 2003, 6:34,
archived)
I know some Romansthey run what must be a fitness club down the road, doing showers and things
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wingpig wish I'd known about liquify eighteen years ago,
Thu 23 Jan 2003, 7:07,
archived)