103381848 comment Comment Just before the launch? (Score 1) 77 by fabben on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @05:42AM (#57454910) Attached to: Internet Archive Launches a Commodore 64 Emulator The C64 Mini has been sold in stores for almost a year now.
36347413 comment Comment Long scale or short scale? (Score 1) 107 by fabben on Wednesday August 15, 2012 @05:38AM (#40994755) Attached to: CERN Physicists Generate Hottest Man-Made Temperatures Ever: ~5.5 Trillion K Is this "5.5 trillion degree" in short scale or the long scale? With short scale this is 5,500,000,000,000 degrees. With long scale it is one million times more...
2398153 comment Comment Error in the message (Score 1) 342 by fabben on Thursday January 10, 2002 @04:01PM (#2818595) Attached to: Search for Terrestrial Intelligence I've start encoding the message at http://www3.sympatico.ca/stephane_dumas/CETI/outpu t_stream.txt and found some serious errors: It says that 2^0=0, 2^1=4 and 2^2=8 in the second page, and the list of prime numbers have 15, that isn't prime... The second page: 1+1=2 1-1=0 1*1=1 1+2=3 1-2=1 1*2=2 3+2=5 3-2=1 3*2=6 1+0=1 1-0=1 1*0=0 1/1=1 1/3=0.33333... 1/2=0.5 4/3=1.33333... 3/2=1.5 1/9=0.11111... 1/0= 2/3=0.66666... 0-1=-1 1/11=0.09090... 1^1 =1 2^0 = 2 = OOOO 3^1 =3 1^1 =1 2^1 = 4 = OOXO 3^2 =9 1^2 =1 2^2 = 8 = OOXO 3^3 =21 1^3 =1 2^3 = 8 = XOOO 3^4 =81 4^2 =16 5^3 =125 9^3 =81 -------------- is infinity or undefinied.