From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <9bb898929a0ba282cef00c948014ceb4@ladd.quanstro.net> References: <9bb898929a0ba282cef00c948014ceb4@ladd.quanstro.net> From: Jamie Gavahan Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2009 23:44:25 -0600 Message-ID: <575e1a150912252144q3eeff2c8kf93deb07f4811939@mail.gmail.com> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] quote of the day Topicbox-Message-UUID: b2772be0-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 03:43, erik quanstrom 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. =C2=A0N= ote, > however, that this math does not work perfectly." > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0- Microsoft EFI FAT32 File System Specificatio= n, p. 32 Even better is that it is referred to as "a clever piece of arithmetic" two pages earlier. - jamie