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From: Rich Salz <rich.salz@gmail.com>
To: Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org>
Cc: Noel Chiappa <jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>,
	The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Unix v7 icheck dup problem
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2023 21:46:09 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFH29tr_XUw5USWyog1FohOkZcOStngWmTVU7sTGqXoaFdRxJw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BD3E34D4-1136-4A8A-A8C3-3899E39F4BA0@iitbombay.org>

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>
> > then point out that you can feed the number in from either end (most or
> least
> > significant end first) - and proves that it will work either way! The
> > committee was blown away.
>
> Doesn't everyone know that a number is divisible by 3 if the one digit
> result after casting out 9s is divisible by 3?


Sure. But the amazing point was it worked regardless of bit order.

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  reply	other threads:[~2023-03-02  2:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-02  1:36 Noel Chiappa
2023-03-02  1:56 ` John Cowan
2023-03-02  6:41   ` Lars Brinkhoff
2023-03-02  2:12 ` Bakul Shah
2023-03-02  2:46   ` Rich Salz [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2023-03-06  8:14 Noel Chiappa
2023-03-06  8:58 ` Jonathan Gray
2023-03-07  2:05   ` Kenneth Goodwin
2023-03-04 14:41 Noel Chiappa
2023-03-04 14:49 ` KenUnix
2023-03-03 18:22 Noel Chiappa
2023-03-03 19:25 ` Chet Ramey
2023-03-03 21:26   ` John Cowan
2023-03-04  0:23     ` Chet Ramey
2023-03-03 19:35 ` Clem Cole
2023-03-04  2:45   ` Jonathan Gray
2023-03-03 23:00 ` Jonathan Gray
2023-03-04  9:07 ` Jonathan Gray
2023-03-04 11:19   ` KenUnix
2023-03-02  1:59 Noel Chiappa
2023-03-02  2:11 ` Dan Cross
2023-03-01 21:29 Noel Chiappa
2023-03-01 21:54 ` KenUnix
2023-03-01 21:55 ` John Cowan
2023-03-01 22:15 ` Jon Forrest
2023-03-02  4:16 ` Jonathan Gray
2023-03-01 15:09 Noel Chiappa
2023-03-01 16:18 ` Ron Natalie
2023-03-01 16:45   ` KenUnix
2023-03-01 16:57 ` Theodore Ts'o
2023-03-01 20:52 ` Dave Horsfall
2023-03-02  1:46   ` Jonathan Gray
2023-03-02  3:05     ` Dave Horsfall
2023-03-02  7:56       ` John Cowan
2023-03-02  8:53         ` Steve Nickolas
2023-03-02  8:01       ` Jonathan Gray
2023-03-02  7:34   ` arnold

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