So tonight I'm swimming in the pool at the health club and I come to the 10x50 kick part of the program (Act 2, Scene 2, added during a quick rewrite before the curtain went up after reading Ande's Swim Faster Faster tip about kicking earlier today). Anyway, I have trouble counting when exhausted (which I will certainly be after even a short kick set), so what's a poor programmer nerd to do? I know! I'll use my zoomers and a couple kickboards to count to 10 on the pool deck in binary! Pointing up is a "1" bit. Pointing sideways is a "0" bit.
(I've done this before when stuck running on short indoors tracks, but there I've been able to count on my fingers without ruining my streamline.)
Am I weird or what?
Skip Montanaro
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Huh? :bump:
For us math idiots out here, what the heck is a binary?
instead of having 1-9, and then putting a 1 in the tens place, binary only has one and zero. So lets say you wanted to show the number three. In our normal system you would just write the number three and that would be that. In binary though, you would put a 1 in the ones place, and then a one in the twos place. So our 3 would be a binary 11 and our 5 would be 101 (1 in the four place, 0 in the twos place, and then one in the ones place). Its kinda tough to explain unless you work with it.
Huh? :bump:
For us math idiots out here, what the heck is a binary?
instead of having 1-9, and then putting a 1 in the tens place, binary only has one and zero. So lets say you wanted to show the number three. In our normal system you would just write the number three and that would be that. In binary though, you would put a 1 in the ones place, and then a one in the twos place. So our 3 would be a binary 11 and our 5 would be 101 (1 in the four place, 0 in the twos place, and then one in the ones place). Its kinda tough to explain unless you work with it.
