"Robert" <no@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> 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?
>
>
LOL! Thank you for including me in the list :-)
I was starting to think I may have been coming here too long. Looks like
that is the case.
Pete.
--
"I used to write COBOL...now I can do anything."
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