From: Lawrence Stewart <stewart@serissa.com>
To: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] UNIX: A History and a Memoir by Brian W. Kernighan is now out
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 22:05:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <EB6FA403-C650-468E-8DDB-78061DB5805E@serissa.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4caae9f3-a9dd-1a77-6f2b-633cba870562@mhorton.net>
Regarding badge stories, my favorite is Richard Feynman, who found a hole in the fence at Los Alamos and one day exited four times without going in. (Recollection of the story, I think in Surely You’re Joking…)
But that reminds me of my favorite arithmetic problem:
Q: explain negative numbers
A; Four people go into an empty room. Seven people leave. How many people have to go into the room before it is empty again?
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-20 22:43 Norman Wilson
2019-10-23 23:28 ` arnold
2019-10-23 23:38 ` Warner Losh
2019-10-23 23:59 ` Adam Thornton
2019-11-01 22:24 ` Chris Hanson
2019-10-24 17:31 ` Justin Andrusk
2019-10-25 2:45 ` Earl Baugh
2019-10-28 21:41 ` Mary Ann Horton
2019-10-28 22:09 ` Jon Forrest
2019-10-28 23:01 ` Mary Ann Horton
2019-10-28 23:18 ` Jon Forrest
2019-10-28 23:49 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2019-10-29 2:05 ` Lawrence Stewart [this message]
2019-10-29 20:13 ` Mary Ann Horton
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2019-10-20 21:34 Naveen Nathan
2019-10-20 22:05 ` Warner Losh
2019-10-21 2:41 ` Caipenghui
2019-10-21 0:06 ` Larry McVoy
2019-10-21 0:54 ` Jacob Ritorto
2019-10-21 21:40 ` Bakul Shah
2019-10-22 21:38 ` Angelo Papenhoff
2019-10-22 21:51 ` Rob Pike
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