Hello Pascal!

03 Feb 04 20:50, you wrote to Tom Walker:

 PS>>> Nope, 2^0 + ... + ... + 2^9 = 1023.
 TW>>  he forgot ZERO was a Number???
 PS> Huh? Counting on fingers, you don't need to represent 0 specially.
 PS> Just don't hold up any finger. ;) But - with 10 bits/fingers, you
 PS> need the first finger for 2^0 = 1 and then of course the highest
 PS> bit/finger has the value 2^9 = 512.

Hehe, the infamous off-by-one bug, now in anathomy :)

Best Regards, Viktor (aka BlackDew)

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