Re: Decimal versus binary arithmetic was Re: J4 -

On Apr 5, 3:19=A0pm, Robert <n...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 08:53:49 -0500, "HeyBub" <hey...@[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
account=
ing
> >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
ca=
ught in a lie to
> which they have no rational defense. Members of this august forum have
mor=
e artful
> responses.
>
> Robert: The sun rises in the east.
>
> WMK: Have you seen EVERY sunrise since the Earth's creation? No, so you
ca=
nnot 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
e=
quator. We in
> the southern hemisphere see the sun rise in the NE or NNE. You Yanks in
no=
rthern latitudes
> see it in the SE.

For a particular meaning of 'rise' I have seen the sun rise in the
west. Taking off just after sunset and climbing to 30,000 feet brought
the sun back up above the horizon.


> 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
digi=
ts. The original
> version was written in Basic for a Sinclair ZX81,

Actually I never used any Sinclair machine nor its BASIC. That almost
rates as 'ad hominem' to suggest that I did.

> where it took several seconds to produce
> an answer. As a point of interest, if you are standing within 6 km of
eith=
er pole, you
> will actually see the sun rise in the west .. once per year.
>

You seem to have a strange idea about what one sees when within the
polar areas.


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