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Re: The next exercise


From: Emanuel Berg
Subject: Re: The next exercise
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2022 05:45:22 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13)

Michael Heerdegen wrote:

>>> Still too mathematical maybe. Wait - it's the largest number
>>> a calculator using 8 796 093 022 208 binary digits
>>> can express.
>>
>> That's right! \o/
>>
>> It is the number you get from one terabyte of data - or
>> technically 1 TiB - with all the bits set, i.e.
>>
>>   1111111111111 ... [just kidding]
>
> Ah - very nice that you made my answer count.
>
> If I ever need to save this number to disk, I know now that
> it's possible ;-)

I'm sorry you had to say that last thing because ... actually
that's the (b) question part, to implement it in practice.

Because otherwise, what signal do we send to the Emacs and Elisp
community? That only theory counts? And we can't have
that ... obviously.

:)

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