jmorriso@ee.ubc.ca (John Paul Morrison) (01/12/91)
Try this on the command line: :&:123 (enter) then press EVAL. you get the system binary for 123, ie <123d> or <7Bh> This works for any number that is not a library in a port. ps. BUG = unintended/unexpected results from normal operations. John Paul Morrison
jpser@cup.portal.com (John Paul Serafin) (01/14/91)
For additional amusement try 101_34 (enter) and see: 3434 any x_y where x and y may be each be any sequence of digits interpretable as real numbers. x may be negative, y may not have a negative sign. Norm Lewis showed this to me yesterday.
gt9712a@prism.gatech.edu (SPENCER,JAMES LEWIS) (01/14/91)
sound way too cool. ;-)
vaps0pb@prism.gatech.edu (Phillip Bridges) (01/14/91)
way too cool man. Cant wait to check it out. (NOT) :-)<--<
woody@nntp-server.caltech.edu (William Edward Woody) (01/14/91)
In article <37985@cup.portal.com> jpser@cup.portal.com (John Paul Serafin) writes: >For additional amusement try >101_34 (enter) >and see: 3434 >any x_y where x and y may be each be any sequence of digits >interpretable as real numbers. x may be negative, y may not >have a negative sign. Well, it may be an unexpected result, but I can see the logic behind it. I mean, when you say '10_ft', what you really mean is 10 * (1 foot), where '1 foot' is a unit. Thus, when you say '3_4' do you mean 3 * (4), where '4' is a "unitless unit?" My experiments with this is when you say 'x_y', what you get is x*y. This seems to work for any object x, when y is a positive real number. Or at least for all the objects I've tried it with... Curioser and Curioser... A calculator with bugs! (BTW, I have revision 'C' ROMs...) -- William Edward Woody | Disclamer: USNAIL P.O.Box 50986; Pasadena, CA 91115 | EMAIL woody@tybalt.caltech.edu | The useful stuff in this message ICBM 34 08' 44''N x 118 08' 41''W | was only line noise.
jpser@cup.portal.com (John Paul Serafin) (01/15/91)
I agree with the units interpretatation of the x_y phenomenum, but I get "too few arguments" when x is a matrix or vector and "bad argument type" when x is a complex number. So, what else can x be besides a real number (binary gives "bad arg..." also) ? Is anybody else disappointed that complex numbers can not have electrical units? John Serafin jpser@cup.portal.com