On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 08:53:49 -0500, "HeyBub" <heybub@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Robert wrote:
>>
>> You thought that because 'everyone knows' binary fractions are
>> inaccurate. Some refuse to believe the number is an integer, not a
>> fraction. That was my whole point -- we could have been storing
>> currency amounts (dollars/pounds/zlotnys and cents) in binary all
>> along. We never needed packed decimal. It was an IBM sales gimmick,
>> and it worked.
>
>The alternative explanation was that the computer - first used in
accounting
>departments - had to exactly reproduce the results obtained by adding
>machines and comptompters in order to be accepted in a commercial
>enviornment. Therefore, IBM invested untold treasure and time to develop
>circuitry to exactly mimic manual methods.
>
>But of course that's what you'd expect the Illuminati and the Freemasons
to
>say, directed as they are by their alien overlords.
That sort of ad hominem is what government and big cor****ations do when
caught in a lie to
which they have no rational defense. Members of this august forum have
more artful
responses.
Robert: The sun rises in the east.
WMK: Have you seen EVERY sunrise since the Earth's creation? No, so you
cannot generalize.
DocD: I barely know what side of the bed *I* get out on, much less anyone
else.
Richard: Arrant nonsense. The azimuth of sunrise is generally toward the
equator. We in
the southern hemisphere see the sun rise in the NE or NNE. You Yanks in
northern latitudes
see it in the SE. I long ago put this into a package that when called with
a site's
latitude and the date will output the sunrise azimuth accurate to six
digits. The original
version was written in Basic for a Sinclair ZX81, where it took several
seconds to produce
an answer. As a point of interest, if you are standing within 6 km of
either pole, you
will actually see the sun rise in the west .. once per year.
Howard: It rises over the 10th tee, which is eastward. Who cares exactly
where it rises?
My grandkids are more im****tant.
Clark: If you can send me a dump taken at the instant of sunrise, I can
figure it out. If
it was written in assembler, that would help.
Frank: IBM hasn't updated the VSE sunrise functions in 15 years. All we
get are promises.
Alistair: I didn't know that until I saw it on the Science Channel.
PECD: That's only in your reality. We each have our own reality. In mine,
the sun rises
(or not) when and where I instantiate it. I don't use academic formulas
involving trig
functions, I do it MY WAY. If you don't like it, I really don't give a
****.
HeyBub: Yeah, right, a vast conspiracy of One Worlders planned it all, to
keep their foot
on the neck of workers living west of the plant, by forcing them to drive
into the sun in
both directions. You should reinforce your tin hat with another layer of
foil, to keep out
thought control rays from the aliens. BTW, do you still think the moon
landing was faked
and filmed in the desert?
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