One for OLD computer programmers

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Last Hussar

23 October 2023, 12:18:14 PM
Why did computer programmers used to celebrate Christmas on Halloween?

Because Oct 31 = Dec 25.
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Lord Kermit of Birkenhead

23 October 2023, 12:22:50 PM #1
Methinks you'd better explaint that one !!  :d  :d
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fsn

23 October 2023, 12:27:04 PM #2
 ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D

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jimduncanuk

23 October 2023, 12:38:47 PM #3
I got it straight away and I never wrote anything much in code.
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Orcs

23 October 2023, 12:49:02 PM #4
Nobby!! Chew his coat
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mmcv

23 October 2023, 02:12:11 PM #5
;D  very good

fsn

23 October 2023, 02:38:22 PM #6
Quote from: Orcs on 23 October 2023, 12:49:02 PMNobby!! Chew his coat
Why? That was hilarious. I'll not hex him for that.

 ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D
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Leon

23 October 2023, 04:22:20 PM #7
You've all lost me there...!  But then my coding goes as far as making something BOLD!
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fulcrum

23 October 2023, 04:29:03 PM #8

Further evidence that there are 10 types of people, those who understand binary and those who don't :D

Last Hussar

23 October 2023, 05:41:34 PM #9
For those not computer nerd...  ;)

Oct (short for Octal) is Base 8; 1,2,3...6,7, 10
That is the columns represent powers of 8 (so 100 Oct is 64, 15 Oct is our 13).

Unsurprisingly Dec is Decimal, our Base 10.

Oct 31 is 3x8 plus 1x1 = 25.
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fsn

23 October 2023, 07:06:46 PM #10
And Hex (as well beloved by Traveller fans) is base 16.  10 is represented by A and, 11 by B, 12 by C etc, so 31 is 1F

Must dust off my old Traveller set. Actually, I've got Striker as well. 

Hmmm. Let me have a look at those SF offerings from Pendraken.



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Last Hussar

23 October 2023, 09:07:59 PM #11
In late 80s I was in a fantastic Traveller campaign. It was the sort where the GM would just go with whatever lunacy broke out, at one point Rob was challenged to a duel, and as the challenged he got to pick weapon.

So he picked syringes full of laxatives.
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steve_holmes_11

23 October 2023, 11:08:34 PM #12

QuoteMethinks you'd better explaint that one !!  :d  :d
It's a number-based jape.

Ithoriel

24 October 2023, 04:23:00 AM #13
Quote from: fulcrum on 23 October 2023, 04:29:03 PMFurther evidence that there are 10 types of people, those who understand binary and those who don't :D

Nonsense, there are 100 types of people. Those who understand binary and those who can work from incomplete data! :)
There are 100 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who can work from incomplete data

paulr

24 October 2023, 07:53:42 AM #14
 ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D

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