15 Jan
2009
15 Jan
'09
5:01 p.m.
On Thursday 15 January 2009, Dan Asimov wrote: [me:]
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.
[Dan:]
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."
Ha. (But my daughter could count well beyond 2 before she had any inkling of notions like "looks like more than 2"; for some time she'd say "2!" when asked how many of anything there were (if more than one). -- g