The Original 'Ode To Joy' thread - Page 89

petrw1 · 2012-12-09, 21:36

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Originally Posted by petrw1

She's Alive!!!!!!!!!

Well I finally achieved the full year transition.
My very first GIMPS PC (PIII 400 Mhz) was completing in 1 year what my new i5-3570K can complete in 1 day.

kracker · 2012-12-09, 21:47

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Originally Posted by petrw1

Well I finally achieved the full year transition.
My very first GIMPS PC (PIII 400 Mhz) was completing in 1 year what my new i5-3570K can complete in 1 day.

Holy Hell. Haha! :-)

Just shows you how far we have gone

ET_ · 2012-12-12, 08:10

Today I received my copy of Donald Knuth's "The art of computer programming" vol. 4A, and noticed that my name was on the bibliography...

Dubslow · 2012-12-12, 16:13

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Originally Posted by ET_

Today I received my copy of Donald Knuth's "The art of computer programming" vol. 4A, and noticed that my name was on the bibliography...

That's awesome! For what?

LaurV · 2012-12-12, 16:35

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Originally Posted by Dubslow

That's awesome! For what?

No. To.

ET_ · 2012-12-12, 23:28

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Originally Posted by Dubslow

That's awesome! For what?

Alphametics. Automatic resolution of doubly-true problems :-)

Luigi

ET_ · 2012-12-12, 23:30

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Originally Posted by LaurV

No. To.

help:

Batalov · 2012-12-12, 23:51

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A tree is a rare treat. I siesta as I sit at it. I stir as I stare at sea. As I sit, stars rise nicely.

Dad and son sat on sod. Dad stood at noon, and son soon stood, too (on sand, not sod). A sad son, sans Dad, stood and stood. No Dad. A sad, sad finale.

(sum of all alphametics = last word = nicely, finale)

That's bloody marvelous!

LaurV · 2012-12-13, 01:59

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Originally Posted by ET_

help:

That's a 30 years old "englishtronic" joke, i.e. for English speaking electronic engineers/students. It goes like:
A guy walk in a components shop: "Do you have power resistors?", "For what?", "No. To", "To what??!?", "Yes", "No", "Thanks" and the guy lives the store**.

There are different versions of it, including nice comic strips, we use to hang them on walls in dorms when we were students, I can't remember it all, as I am not native speaker, I always miss something. In the last 10-15 years as the internet took charge, I tried many times to locate the comic strips but I always failed, the words are so common that they confuse any search engine... Part of the humor comes not only from the dialog, but from the faces of the guys (the buyer and the seller).

(* For those who don't understand the joke, because they are not electronic geeks, or not English speakers, or they don't want to,

the dialog is like:
"Do you have power resistors?" asks the buyer
"Is 4 watt good for you?" replies the seller
"No. I would like two watt."
"Two watt?"
"Yes"
"Sorry, we don't have those"
"Thanks"
)

(now I realized that my explanation makes a good joke too haha).

kladner · 2012-12-13, 02:14

It sounds positively Pythonesque.

xilman · 2012-12-13, 07:28

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Originally Posted by kladner

It sounds positively Pythonesque.

More The Two Ronnies and the four candles sketch.

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2012-12-12, 08:10	#971
ET_ Banned "Luigi" Aug 2002 Team Italia 12D3₁₆ Posts	Today I received my copy of Donald Knuth's "The art of computer programming" vol. 4A, and noticed that my name was on the bibliography...

2012-12-13, 02:14	#978
kladner "Kieren" Jul 2011 In My Own Galaxy! 2·3·1,693 Posts	It sounds positively Pythonesque.