User: fabben

Just before the launch?

On: Internet Archive Launches a Commodore 64 Emulator (hardocp.com)

The C64 Mini has been sold in stores for almost a year now.

Long scale or short scale?

On: 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...

Error in the message

On: 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


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