No one asked what I was doing with 120,526,770 records
Bill Vermillion
fp at wjv.com
Sat Feb 12 22:29:30 PST 2005
Fairlight, the prominent pundit, on Sat, Feb 12 21:16 while half
mumbling half-witicized:
> This public service announcement was brought to you by Michael J. Mc Avoy Sr.:
> > Jezze,
> >
> > I sure thought at least one of ya would want to
> > know what I was doing with all these dang records.
> >
> > Hint....
> > 53/5*52/4*51/3*50/2*49*42
> 53/5*52/4*51/3*50/2*49*42 = 113704500
> Erm...the result bc gives doesn't ring a bell.
Unless you set the scale [as in my example I posted] bc will
be working integers.
The first computation 53/5 will give you 10 without setting the
scale, while setting scale=2 will give 10.60
> I'll go with my default
> answer of, "Taking up disk space?"
> Do tell, though. Kate loves a mystery.
But everyone knows the real answer:
Six by nine, Forty-two.
That's it. That's all there is.
That's the answer to life, the universe and everything.
And if you don't think 6x9=42, you aren't thinking in base 13 :-)
Bill
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