[mdlug] Minor irrelevant amusement

[M. D. Krauss]

On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:33:55 -0500
"Morris, Tim" <tmorris at ugs.com> wrote:

> There is no place for your 32-bit jokes in my 64-bit world ;)

On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:10:16 -0500
"Morris, Tim" <tmorris at ugs.com> wrote:

> But wouldn't that make the magic number 65535 or something?

I don't think data sizes or types are really the point... Most people
get a kick out of seeing mileage roll over a power of 10, like 9,999 to
10,000. This was a binary rollover, binary 111111111111111 to binary
1000000000000000.

Definitely a good omen.

Smiles,
Matthew


> 
> --  Tim Morris - UGS PLM Software
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org [mailto:mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org] On
> Behalf Of Ingles, Raymond
> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 1:04 PM
> To: MDLUG's Main discussion list
> Subject: Re: [mdlug] Minor irrelevant amusement
> 
> > From: Wolfger
> > On 9/10/07, Ingles, Raymond <Raymond.Ingles at compuware.com> wrote:
> > > Last Thursday, on my way home from work, I happened to notice the
> mileage on
> > > my car. It was 32767. It got to 32768 before I arrived home. I
> > > took
> it as a
> > > good omen. :->
> > 
> > So we're into the negatives now, eh?
> 
>  Nah, they must be using an unsigned short. :->
> 
>  Sincerely,
> 
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