[XeTeX] Dinosaurs

maxwell maxwell at umiacs.umd.edu
Mon Sep 12 22:53:02 CEST 2011


On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 21:40:57 +0200, Tobias Schoel
<liesdiedatei at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Shouldn't real dinosaurs (real as in MTV Real Life) calculate using only

> the Peano Axioms and the unary system? 

I believe binary arithmetic was introduced somewhere in the pre-Cambrian. 
This was because when you add two digits, both of which are 1, you have to
carry into the next column; hence the name, You Carry It, since corrupted
to Eukaryote.

   Mike Maxwell


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