Since Mac OS is based on a variant of Unix, unix is probably defined as "1".
Same for compiling it under Linux.
This is less likely to be true under Windows (either "0" or undefined).
Magic is knowing something that others don't.
So it only breaks the physical laws known by the general populace.
The stereotypical example is a modern explorer encountering a jungle tribe - magic objects that can talk (phone, voice recorder) and move around by themselves (4WD).
Or Clarke's summation: Any sufficiently advanced civilisation is indistinguishable from magic.
This is the same as which contains more numbers:
A: 1,2,3,4,5,6,... or
B: 2,4,6,8,10,12,...
There is a direct one-to-one mapping from A to B:
f(x)=x/2
Therefore they have the same number of elements - aleph-0.
A mapping could also be made for every number between 1 and 3 to a number between 1 and 2:
f(x) = (x-1)/2
Therefore each contains the same number of elements.
Infinity, indeed, doesn't behave like regular numbers:)
There is no such number as 2 x aleph-0 because doubling aleph-0 is also just aleph-0 (see first example)
Similarly, the is no such number as aleph-0 + N (N being an ordinary number) because it is also just aleph-0.
The next number above aleph-0 is aleph-1, which is infinitely larger than aleph-0.
60 is divisible by 1,2,3,4,5,6,10,12,15,20,30,60.
It's wonderful that it can be divided by so many commonly used numbers while still being a relatively low number itself.
I remember running the OS/2 PM on Windows for Workgroups 3.11 using the Win32s compatibly subsystem circa 1994/95.
The IBM PM team had recompiled their PM code using a win32 compiler and were giving it away on magazine cover discs.
OS/2's api was originally a 32 bit extension of Win16.
Since NT used a variant of Win32 (NT being in essence MS's version of OS/2 after the split), the porting from OS/2 to NT was supposedly not very hard.
Using PM as a desktop on WfW 3.11 was so much more a logical experience than 3.11's own window manager.
Whatever I did at one level worked the same way at any other level.
E.g. PM let me nest folders inside folders... inside folders on the desktop and each one could have its own background image.
My main memories of OS/2 were that it was rock solid, very stable, very slow, butt ugly (UI designed by engineers), very expensive, compilers were expensive, the SDK was very expensive.
MS on the other hand had a flaky system that was cheap, ran on cheap hardware, looked slick (professional graphics artists), cheap compilers and they practically threw the SDK at anybody moving past their booth at trade shows.
Cheap and pretty wins nearly every time.
Wow, Win2K/XP/2K3 were around in 1990! Win 3.x (1990), Win95 (1995) and Win NT3.1 (1993) drivers were all different until MS made a unified model that supported 95/NT4. I remember an MS event in 1995 where they told us one driver would fit every concurrent version but that broke when Vista came out. Also, I had to replace a lot of working peripherals (eg scanner) when I swapped to Win8-64 because 32bit drivers won't work under 64bit windows. And there's also WinCE/mobile drivers to count.
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Since Mac OS is based on a variant of Unix, unix is probably defined as "1". Same for compiling it under Linux. This is less likely to be true under Windows (either "0" or undefined).
And understanding the difference is a hairy problem.
Given their utility, I suppose "oneday" and "twoday" and so on might be more appropriate in a vacuum,
In most Asian countries, Monday is weekday 1, Tuesday is weekday 2, ..., Saturday is weekday 6 but Sunday is usually weekday Sun.
Oops, this was supposed to be a reply to the message below...
He said 9600 terminals, not modems. Probably using direct serial lines to a shared computer.
Magic is knowing something that others don't. So it only breaks the physical laws known by the general populace. The stereotypical example is a modern explorer encountering a jungle tribe - magic objects that can talk (phone, voice recorder) and move around by themselves (4WD). Or Clarke's summation: Any sufficiently advanced civilisation is indistinguishable from magic.
This is the same as which contains more numbers:
:)
A: 1,2,3,4,5,6,... or
B: 2,4,6,8,10,12,...
There is a direct one-to-one mapping from A to B:
f(x)=x/2
Therefore they have the same number of elements - aleph-0.
A mapping could also be made for every number between 1 and 3 to a number between 1 and 2:
f(x) = (x-1)/2
Therefore each contains the same number of elements.
Infinity, indeed, doesn't behave like regular numbers
There is no such number as 2 x aleph-0 because doubling aleph-0 is also just aleph-0 (see first example)
Similarly, the is no such number as aleph-0 + N (N being an ordinary number) because it is also just aleph-0.
The next number above aleph-0 is aleph-1, which is infinitely larger than aleph-0.
60 is divisible by 1,2,3,4,5,6,10,12,15,20,30,60. It's wonderful that it can be divided by so many commonly used numbers while still being a relatively low number itself.
Reading, riting and rithemetic - but not spelling.
I remember running the OS/2 PM on Windows for Workgroups 3.11 using the Win32s compatibly subsystem circa 1994/95. ... inside folders on the desktop and each one could have its own background image.
The IBM PM team had recompiled their PM code using a win32 compiler and were giving it away on magazine cover discs.
OS/2's api was originally a 32 bit extension of Win16.
Since NT used a variant of Win32 (NT being in essence MS's version of OS/2 after the split), the porting from OS/2 to NT was supposedly not very hard.
Using PM as a desktop on WfW 3.11 was so much more a logical experience than 3.11's own window manager.
Whatever I did at one level worked the same way at any other level.
E.g. PM let me nest folders inside folders
My main memories of OS/2 were that it was rock solid, very stable, very slow, butt ugly (UI designed by engineers), very expensive, compilers were expensive, the SDK was very expensive.
MS on the other hand had a flaky system that was cheap, ran on cheap hardware, looked slick (professional graphics artists), cheap compilers and they practically threw the SDK at anybody moving past their booth at trade shows.
Cheap and pretty wins nearly every time.
Disneyland Hong Kong uses fingerprint scanners like this to. More of a fraud detection scheme for annual passes than an anti-terrorism thing.
Wow, Win2K/XP/2K3 were around in 1990! Win 3.x (1990), Win95 (1995) and Win NT3.1 (1993) drivers were all different until MS made a unified model that supported 95/NT4. I remember an MS event in 1995 where they told us one driver would fit every concurrent version but that broke when Vista came out. Also, I had to replace a lot of working peripherals (eg scanner) when I swapped to Win8-64 because 32bit drivers won't work under 64bit windows. And there's also WinCE/mobile drivers to count.
Steering would be a good option too...