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Re: interactive spec with reasonable numbers for c-u
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Samuel Wales |
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Re: interactive spec with reasonable numbers for c-u |
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Fri, 16 Sep 2022 23:19:20 -0700 |
all i know about the decision to use 4 is the tutoria in 1980s that
asked the user if he or she thought 4 was a good choice.
i belive it was for navigation. i thik some interactive spec that
spits out a symbol like, this syuntax is maybe wrong but the semantics
would be like (interactive "x" apple banana cherry rest) where x is
whatever character is unassigned for this purpose and if c-u, arg gets
apple; c-u c-u arg gets banana. and perhaps rest gets whatever the
arg to c-u is if that is ever used.
which is what elispers would want instead of taking the log of a base
4 number. drawing from my sample of n=1.
On 9/9/22, Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> wrote:
> Samuel Wales wrote:
>
>> dna has 4 base pairs that comes in sequences. so loosely
>> speaking it is base 4 arithmetic. of coure it is not that
>> simple and i am not making the claim that arithmetic per se
>> is performed. among the lack of simplicity, there are
>> codons, there is rna which substitutes uracil, and probably
>> various other footnotes. but it's not wrong to say that our
>> dna has 4 nucleotides in sequences.
>
> Ah, of course, DNA!
>
> Cool, but surely that isn't the reason why we have that
> sequence in Emacs? :O
>
> $ for i in {0..4}; do echo $(( (2**2)**i )); done
>
> 1
> 4
> 16
> 64
> 256
>
> Here's an interesting textfile BTW,
> https://dataswamp.org/~incal/data/BINARY-UNITS
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> BINARY UNITS
> incal@dataswamp.org
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> unit bytes bits max value
> (eval)
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> char/byte 1 8 (1- (** 2 8))
> word 2 16 (1- (** 2 (* 8
> 2)))
> doubleword 4 32 (1- (** 2 (* 8
> 4)))
> quadword 8 64 (1- (** 2 (* 8
> 8)))
> paragraph 16 128 (1- (** 2 (* 8
> 16)))
> kilobyte 1 024 8 192 (1- (** 2 (* 8
> 1024)))
> megabyte 1 048 576 8 388 608 (1- (** 2 (* 8 (** 1024
> 2))))
> gigabyte 1 073 741 824 8 589 934 592 (1- (** 2 (* 8 (** 1024
> 3))))
> terabyte 1 099 511 627 776 8 796 093 022 208 (1- (** 2 (* 8 (** 1024
> 4))))
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> (defalias '**
> #'expt)
> 1 kilobyte = 1024^1 bytes
> 1 megabyte = 1024^2 -"-
> 1 gigabyte = 1024^3 -"-
> 1 terabyte = 1024^4 -"-
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> https://dataswamp.org/~incal/data/BINARY-UNITS
> 2022-09-10
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
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Re: interactive spec with reasonable numbers for c-u, Emanuel Berg, 2022/09/16
Re: interactive spec with reasonable numbers for c-u, Emanuel Berg, 2022/09/16