Re: FAA To Finally Ditch Floppy Disks & Win-95

Charlie Gibbs wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

On 2025-06-18, c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:
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On 6/18/25 12:15 PM, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
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On 2025-06-18, John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> wrote:
 

On 18 Jun 2025 03:55:32 GMT
rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
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Besides 'metre' goes back to the French National Assembly that wanted
to reinvent everything including 10 day weeks with the days named
after plants.

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Frustratingly, the year persisted in having 365.25[...] days no matter
how severely they threatened to guillotine it ;)

 
Just as pi has resisted any attempts to re-define it as 3.
(355/113 works pretty well, though...)

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   Well, just change to base-pi ... then it's
   conveniently 1
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   Might be a bit messy to calculate how to make
   change at the convenience store however  :-)

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Yeah, and then you have all those people who just got converted
to base e and don't want to change again.

MIDI's variable-length values are basically base-128.

The Sumerians and Babylonians used base-60.

The Aztecs used base-20.

Programmers use base-16.

The gomers use base-10.

Digital Equipment Corporation used base-8.

strtol() allows any base up to 35.

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 I'm an idiot..  At least this [bug] took about 5 minutes to find.
 
 Disquieting ...
-- Gonzalo Tornaria in response to Linus Torvalds