In a message dated 10/2/2001 8:20:01 AM Central Daylight Time, jjllambias@hotmail.com writes:
Part of the fun of reading pc is that you have to solve the Uhhh, thanks? I would say that the hard part is that he doesn't use emoticons, on the general principle that "if they don't get a joke, f*k 'em" (stars for antipodean with the weird censor). <What you call random hex numbers are his code for your segments: 1,2,3 for the horizontal segments, A,B,C,D for the vertical ones. The number 8 would be 1AB2CD3. Your hex digits in his code would be: 1AC, A2C, B2C, A2D, 1BD3, 1A2D> Yup. I am less sure where this came from. I remember it in a book on cute tricks with pocket calculators -- equations to put in to get it to swear when turned updide down and the like -- and presented there as something everybody knew (i.e., not explained at all). That puts it around the time that pocket calculators became cheap and common -- early 60's again? |