Date: 28 Jan 2001 00:30:16 +0100 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@inwind.it>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OT again: Re: hexidecimal literacy Message-ID: <xzpsnm4po8n.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Mike Meyer's message of "Sat, 27 Jan 2001 17:23:06 -0600 (CST)" References: <14963.8033.752142.149320@guru.mired.org> <20010127.20140200@bartequi.ottodomain.org> <14963.13797.116165.382738@guru.mired.org> <20010127.22394200@bartequi.ottodomain.org> <xzp1ytor438.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <14963.22618.623392.355083@guru.mired.org>
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Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> writes: > Where did you find a computer that did calculations in N? Or some form > Z/n, even? Computers? I didn't say anything about computers :) Seriously, though, there are programming languages (ML for instance) that will let you define abstract types syntactically. (my mind is muddled, btw, I should have said Z instead of N; though it's common in CS to include 0 in N, I should know better) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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