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From: "Mitch Bailey" <chemmie@MINDSPRING.COM>
Subject: (urth) Isid Iooo IoooE , duh!
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 00:17:09
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"Then you could read the whole assemblage as two 64-bit hex numbers and =
one 128-bit hex number:
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151D, 1000, 1000E
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Now, what their significance might be, I still couldn't say, but maybe =
this is a step in the right direction."=20
DUH!
I meant, of course, two 32-bit numbers and a 48-bit number. Where do you =
ever run across 48 bit numbers in computer science?
This of course comes to us from the man who had a character spend his =
entire childhood reading "M*MILLION" as Monsieur Million.
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