Rogue's Gallery Update -- Talk about diversity!

Jay wrote:

Well, I guess that's what happens when you're counting things "by
hand"
while working...

I understand. Thirty two aircraft is a lot of aircraft to try to count
by hand. Even if you used your feet, you still come up short by 12
digits.

--
Peter
BE35 owner who was not counted. I guess a more southerly route across
the US during my late May trip is needed to find an Inn owner with
better counting skills.

I understand. Thirty two aircraft is a lot of aircraft to try to count
by hand. Even if you used your feet, you still come up short by 12
digits.

I can count to more than a thousand on my fingers.

Jose
--
Get high on gasoline: fly an airplane.
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

Jose wrote:

I can count to more than a thousand on my fingers.

Man, that's a lot of fingers. Maybe next time Jay will hire you to
provide this group with the Rogue's Gallery statistics.

--
Peter

In article ,
Jose wrote:
I understand. Thirty two aircraft is a lot of aircraft to try to count
by hand. Even if you used your feet, you still come up short by 12
digits.

I can count to more than a thousand on my fingers.

*NEAT* trick. Most people run out of _fingers_ at a binary count of 256.

Are you related to Hemingway's cats? grin

"Robert Bonomi" wrote in message
...
I can count to more than a thousand on my fingers.

*NEAT* trick. Most people run out of _fingers_ at a binary count of 256.

I presume that he's counting his thumb as a finger, as do most people.

I can just see the delivery room scene:

Doctor: "Congratulations, your baby has eight fingers!"

Mother: "Oh my god! The ultrasound showed a perfectly normal fetus!"

Doctor: "...and two thumbs."

Mother: "(*&^#$^* Okay, Dr. Idiot...why don't you just come a little closer
here..."

In article ,
Peter Duniho wrote:
"Robert Bonomi" wrote in message
...
I can count to more than a thousand on my fingers.

*NEAT* trick. Most people run out of _fingers_ at a binary count of 256.

I presume that he's counting his thumb as a finger, as do most people.

"Q. If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a dog have?
A. Four. Calling a tail a leg does *not* make it a leg!"

Applies equally to thumbs/fingers.


I can just see the delivery room scene:

Doctor: "Congratulations, your baby has eight fingers!"

Mother: "Oh my god! The ultrasound showed a perfectly normal fetus!"

Doctor: "...and two thumbs."

Mother: "(*&^#$^* Okay, Dr. Idiot...why don't you just come a little closer
here..."

"Robert Bonomi" wrote in message
...
I presume that he's counting his thumb as a finger, as do most people.

"Q. If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a dog have?
A. Four. Calling a tail a leg does *not* make it a leg!"

Applies equally to thumbs/fingers.

It would if the thumb were not a finger.

Look it up in the dictionary. The thumb qualifies as a finger. It's a
special finger, to be sure, and is *sometimes* distinguished from the
fingers. But only a Usenet pedant would go around claiming that every
normal human being has only eight fingers.

Pete

Why is it that when I hold up my hands infront of me, I count ten
fingers? ...but when I stick them down my trousers, close my eyes, I
count eleven? ...and a couple of golfballs?

Bryan

....
Why is it that when I hold up my hands infront of me, I count ten
fingers? ...but when I stick them down my trousers, close my eyes, I
count eleven? ...and a couple of golfballs?

Bryan

I just love riddles. I think I know the answer to this. Somebody else is
wearing your pants!

Sorry, I know I haven't been around long enough for that , but I just had
to.

Jose writes:
I understand. Thirty two aircraft is a lot of aircraft to try to count
by hand. Even if you used your feet, you still come up short by 12
digits.

I can count to more than a thousand on my fingers.

Me too.

For those who are curious, here is how, with my rough approximation of
a pair of hands in ASCII art:

[dot is finger down, stick is finger up]

.... ....
..OOOO OOOO. 0

.... ....
..OOOO OOOO/ 1

.... ...|
..OOOO OOOO. 2

.... ...|
..OOOO OOOO/ 3

.... ..|.
..OOOO OOOO. 4

.... ..|.
..OOOO OOOO/ 5

.... ..||
..OOOO OOOO. 6

.... ..||
..OOOO OOOO/ 7

.... .|..
..OOOO OOOO. 8

.... .|..
..OOOO OOOO/ 9

.... .|.|
..OOOO OOOO. 10

.... .|.|
..OOOO OOOO/ 11

.... .||.
..OOOO OOOO. 12

.... .||.
..OOOO OOOO/ 13

.... .|||
..OOOO OOOO. 14

.... .|||
..OOOO OOOO/ 15

....etc...

|||| ||||
\OOOO OOOO/ 1023


It is a binary encoding. I use this to teach CS undergrads how to
count in binary -- they quickly become amused by the numbers 4, 128
and 132.

Chris
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