How nerdy are you?This week Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons, died. A whole generation of pasty dice-obsessed nerds owes him big time. Me included.
So, in his honour, how nerdy were you? Are you still sunlight-averse? What are the sad little things you do that nobody else understands?
As an example, a B3ta regular who shall remain nameless told us, "I spent an entire school summer holiday getting my BBC Model B computer to produce filthy stories from an extensive database of names, nouns, adjectives, stock phrases and deviant sexual practices. It revolutionised the porn magazine dirty letter writing industry for ever.
Revel in your own nerdiness.
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chthonic, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 10:32)
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there are 10 types of nerdthose who understand binary, those who don't, ... and those who understand Gray code.
(, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 18:46, 4 replies)
I've always wondered of the advantage to things like this.What's wrong with plain binary?
I wonder what would happen if we could have a tri-state bit.
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"I wonder what would happen if we could have a tri-state bit."Not a lot, really.
trit /trit/ n.
[by analogy with "bit"] One base-3 digit; the amount of information conveyed by a selection among one of three equally likely outcomes. A trit may be semi-seriously referred to as "a bit and a half", although it is linearly equivalent to 1.5849625 (log2(3)) bits.
(, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 20:21, closed)
Gray Code is like binaryexcept only one digit may change from each value to the next, compare binary 7 to binary 8. Used in position sensors.
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jonbob loves you, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 22:11,
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@SlaughterI think its to do with stopping the zero volt line drifting and effecting the communication channel you happen to be looking at.
Examples include long strings of zeros or ones.
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