1+ 1 can be 4 different values as 2 bits

0,0, 01, 1,0, and 1,1

4 different possibilities

wow, its almost like i was just doing base 2 math

There are 10 types of people in the world

those you dont know binary

those who know binary

and those who knew i was talking about base 3 the entire time

you do realize that if your using another base on your numbers your suppose to quantify that

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everything is considered to be base 10 if your not quantifying the numbers to be another base

this is painful

which you didn't do

Wow, that almost like that was the point

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is he googling

one is big boi, one is smol bean

I never needed to know that

cobol

pL/1

I've coded in machine language, but small programs

I dunno, EBCIDIC I think is the standard IBM one

its just character codes but there are specific commands in machine langauge to do functions

its rather basic and boring

my father did punch cards, I was way too old to program in punch cards

I graduated in 94

I was programming for the 2,000 disaster that never came

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its a character code, they taught it in the same class as the coding for the machine language

that is all I remember

I had a card with all the commands

it wasn't that complciated

I got an A in the class

most of the coding classes I got an A in

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cobol I had a bad teacher

first class I got a C in it

couldn't live with a C, I retook the class several times

I programmed in cobol on the job, not sure why you think its a dead language

it might be dead now but when I coded it it wasn't dead yet

most of the data was already input, they were mostly read off huge reals of tape