Fergus,
10 fingers?!! With peas and chips as well, I'm full up after only 4. I
bet you can eat more than 3 Shredded Wheat as well.
Maybe this looks all clear for you, but to eat more than 3 Shredded Wheat,
you first have to dimension it. There are 3 dimensions, which will not fit
in a single bit structure.
In a single bit structure you can only have 1 piece or nothing sometimes
called "null".
So if you want to eat more than 1 piece you have to add an overload bit.
When the overload bit is on, you can bring that to an extra one bit
register.
In that case you can eat 3 pieces, although you have only 2 single bit
registers.
The first one has the human value 2 and the second one the value 1. When you
add that together you get the human value 3.
It is a total different way humans are calculating. Humans have ten fingers
and they don't say on or off, but just one finger, two fingers, three
fingers and with 10 they are at the end.
So with this example of you, they would use 3 fingers.
Humans do use a virtual calculating system that is in almost every culture
the same although there are too who use also there toes. But most say in
virtual thinking 11 means 2 full hands of fingers plus one finger. For a
computer this would be 3. Therefore when I can eat 3 peas, you eat 11 peas
and that is a lot I think.
But Humans can calculate with half fingers but do not cut off them further.
So in there mind, when they have to use half or partial fingers, they bring
it first back to a value that does not need half fingers, so 5.1 * 100
becomes the same as 1 * 510.
If the computer software would do that (and as far as I know some do or
did), the results would be the same as humans calculate even if the computer
uses binary values for calculating. That is what I remind me from the past
when the system of binary calculating was developed the system was build on.
But maybe this has to do because that the importance of the rule is
shifting, first were humans important, but now he or she is only the one who
enters values using the keyboard, the computer rules.
This means, when you think you can eat 1000 chips, you maybe only get 999 or
something. But who cares
I thought you did not understand what I did mean, so I made a little
explanation.
:-)) Have fun be happy
Cor
