Re: atomic
From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca>
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:36:37 -0300
Message-ID: <4729f288$0$14877$9a566e8b_at_news.aliant.net>
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> This is a joke, right? For radix n, n-1 has this interesting property.
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:36:37 -0300
Message-ID: <4729f288$0$14877$9a566e8b_at_news.aliant.net>
David Cressey wrote:
> "Bob Badour" <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca> wrote in message
> news:4728f759$0$14832$9a566e8b_at_news.aliant.net...
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>>It's ironic you should mention base 9. It's a little-known fact that, if >>a number is evenly divisible by 8, the sum of the digits of the number >>in base 9 is also evenly divisible by 8. And if one repeats the process >>with that sum until the resulting sum has only one digit and if the >>original number was divisible by 8, the one remaining digit will be 8. >> >>It's like magic. So it's really ironic you should mention base 9 in >>particular.
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> This is a joke, right? For radix n, n-1 has this interesting property.
> Likewise, 9 has this fun property in decimals. Bookkeepers in the Bob
> Chratchit era used a property much like this one for error detection in
> manually managed numbers.
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> If this were another person posting, I'd think it was simple oversight.
> But you, BB, are likely to know exactly what I've just said.