15 Jan
2009
15 Jan
'09
4:14 p.m.
Gareth wrote: << On Thursday 15 January 2009, Veit Elser wrote:
This type of question reminds me of my son's first experience learning to count: he got caught in an infinite loop! ... EIGHT NINE TEN ELEVEN EIGHT NINE ...
My daughter recently went 1,2,3,...,13,14,16,16,16,16,16,... . I assume some 4-bit counter overflowed and scrobbled a linked-list pointer, or something.
There's a vignette of a small child counting birds on a wire: "1, 4, 3, 9, 12, 11, 2. That's funny, it looks like more than 2." --Dan _____________________________________________________________________ "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that certain je ne sais quoi." --Peter Schickele