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From: Ralph Corderoy <ralph@inputplus.co.uk>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: A second Unix Patent
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2023 09:22:16 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230304092216.287E22020E@orac.inputplus.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230304015746.DD95518C08D@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>

Hi,

Noel wrote:
> I fed '26 3 ^p' into 'dc' to see just how big it was - and got
> "17576", a 16-bit word array of which would fit into a PDP-11 64KB
> address space.

I'm a fan of dc(1), but also of units(1) and since both seem underused
here's an alternative method.

    $ units -1v '26^3 16 bit' 64KiB
            26^3 16 bit = 0.53637695 * 64KiB

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-03-04  9:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-04  1:57 Noel Chiappa
2023-03-04  9:22 ` Ralph Corderoy [this message]
2023-03-04 15:08 ` Clem Cole
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2023-03-01 22:59 [TUHS] " Warner Losh
2023-03-02  4:41 ` [TUHS] " Douglas McIlroy
2023-03-02  5:16   ` David Arnold
2023-03-03 13:29   ` Steve Mynott
2023-03-03 19:19     ` James Frew

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