[TUHS] A second Unix Patent

Ralph Corderoy ralph at inputplus.co.uk
Sat Mar 4 19:22:16 AEST 2023


Hi,

Noel wrote:
> I fed '26 3 ^p' into 'dc' to see just how big it was - and got
> "17576", a 16-bit word array of which would fit into a PDP-11 64KB
> address space.

I'm a fan of dc(1), but also of units(1) and since both seem underused
here's an alternative method.

    $ units -1v '26^3 16 bit' 64KiB
            26^3 16 bit = 0.53637695 * 64KiB

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Cheers, Ralph.


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