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George Herold

Jan 1, 1970
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On 12/9/2013 11:38 PM, Bill Sloman wrote:
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And I found it, they got the part number incorrect for the
timer!

No. Signetics made the mistake - the number they chose was 111 too low.
For its day it _was_ a beast, after all. ;)

Phil Hobbs



The Sine of the Beast!
-0.8090169...... (assuming God works in degrees.)

George H.
 
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George Herold

Jan 1, 1970
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Phil is more expert at things theological, but I'd expect the Creator

to work in radians.



Which makes the Sine of the Beast -0.0176416.

My Casio puked when I asked for the answer radians..
But I expect there is some more esoteric unit.. cubits and tribits maybe? (trigbits)
George H.
 
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Bill Sloman

Jan 1, 1970
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My fx-82MS needed its mode button pressed twice before it would offer me the choice.

Armies liked the mil and the grad, though various armies defined them differently

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angular_mil
Michelangelo's portraits of God clearly show ten fingers, so He must
work in base-10.

John Larkin's grasp of theology is roughly equivalent to his grasp of climate science, but he has a point to the extent that 666 in octal is a different number than 666 in decimal and different again from 666 in hexadecimal,not that the author of Revelations is likely to have had anything but the decimal number system in mind.
 
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Jasen Betts

Jan 1, 1970
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Phil is more expert at things theological, but I'd expect the Creator
to work in radians.

Which makes the Sine of the Beast -0.0176416.

The Bible puts pi at 3 even which makes the sine of the beast 0.

1 Kings 7:23 And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to
the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and
a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
 
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Greegor

Jan 1, 1970
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I would have contacted you, about performing a valuable function for
my company in Australia, if you weren't such a total jerk.

Shh! Don't tell your wife, Slowman! LOL
 
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Bill Sloman

Jan 1, 1970
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I would have contacted you, about performing a valuable function for
my company in Australia, if you weren't such a total jerk.

Joerg has just given you a free - and private - endorsement.

"I could not imagine having a better boss if I worked there."

I suspect that I've had one or two better bosses than Joerg has managed, somy imagination may be a little more ambitious. You do have an unfortunate tendency to post stuff that shows you up in a bad light, and this would seem to be one of those occasions, and this time you did it without any help from Jim Thompson.
 
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Bill Sloman

Jan 1, 1970
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Phil Hobbs

Jan 1, 1970
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The Bible puts pi at 3 even which makes the sine of the beast 0.

1 Kings 7:23 And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to
the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and
a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.

You've trotted out that gibe N times in the past, and it's a crock.

A cubit is the distance from your fingertips to your elbow, which makes
it about as precise a measurement unit as a pace. And just to be
ridiculous and import the modern idea of significant digits into a 3,000
year old description: If you think of the circumference as 30.0000... of
these imprecise cubits, the diameter would be 4.78 of them, i.e. 5
cubits when correctly rounded to one digit as quoted.

There are certainly some puzzlers in Scripture, but this is not one of them.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

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Dr Philip C D Hobbs
Principal Consultant
ElectroOptical Innovations LLC
Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics

160 North State Road #203
Briarcliff Manor NY 10510

hobbs at electrooptical dot net
http://electrooptical.net
 
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Robert Baer

Jan 1, 1970
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Phil said:
You've trotted out that gibe N times in the past, and it's a crock.

A cubit is the distance from your fingertips to your elbow, which makes
it about as precise a measurement unit as a pace. And just to be
ridiculous and import the modern idea of significant digits into a 3,000
year old description: If you think of the circumference as 30.0000... of
these imprecise cubits, the diameter would be 4.78 of them, i.e. 5
cubits when correctly rounded to one digit as quoted.

There are certainly some puzzlers in Scripture, but this is not one of
them.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs
Well, humph!
Take a bunch of men right out of church and line up their feet
(straight line), "measure" the length and divide by the number of men,
and you have the PRECISE (original) definition of a foot.
Cubit, my foot!
 
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Syd Rumpo

Jan 1, 1970
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Well, humph!
Take a bunch of men right out of church and line up their feet
(straight line), "measure" the length and divide by the number of men,
and you have the PRECISE (original) definition of a foot.
Cubit, my foot!

A Qubit is the length of a dead and/or alive cat.

Cheers
 
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Clifford Heath

Jan 1, 1970
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work in base-10.
... 666 in octal is a different number than 666 in decimal and different again from 666 in hexadecimal, not that the author of Revelations is likely to have had anything but the decimal number system in mind.

Maybe he was using Sumerian numbers (base 6) and had overflows everywhere?
 
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Phil Hobbs

Jan 1, 1970
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Is that a PURR-fect daffy-nition?

Doubtful. Putting a cat in a box has unit probability of making a very
unhappy cat.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

--
Dr Philip C D Hobbs
Principal Consultant
ElectroOptical Innovations LLC
Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics

160 North State Road #203
Briarcliff Manor NY 10510

hobbs at electrooptical dot net
http://electrooptical.net
 
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Phil Hobbs

Jan 1, 1970
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We can't keep our cats, especially Comet, out of boxes.

Try closing the lid and see what happens. ;)

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

--
Dr Philip C D Hobbs
Principal Consultant
ElectroOptical Innovations LLC
Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics

160 North State Road #203
Briarcliff Manor NY 10510

hobbs at electrooptical dot net
http://electrooptical.net
 
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