From: Jamie Gavahan <redpike@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] quote of the day
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2009 23:44:25 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <575e1a150912252144q3eeff2c8kf93deb07f4811939@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9bb898929a0ba282cef00c948014ceb4@ladd.quanstro.net>
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 03:43, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> "Do not spend too much time trying to figure out why this math works.
> The basis for the computation is complicated; the important point is
> that this is how Microsoft operating systems do it, and it works. Note,
> however, that this math does not work perfectly."
> - Microsoft EFI FAT32 File System Specification, p. 32
Even better is that it is referred to as "a clever piece of arithmetic" two
pages earlier.
- jamie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-26 5:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-25 9:43 erik quanstrom
2009-12-25 18:48 ` Patrick Kelly
2009-12-26 5:44 ` Jamie Gavahan [this message]
2009-12-26 5:50 ` Bruce Ellis
2009-12-26 6:42 ` Akshat Kumar
2009-12-26 6:49 ` Bruce Ellis
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-02-13 22:03 erik quanstrom
2008-02-13 23:08 ` Pietro Gagliardi
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