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virividox
May 4, 2005, 11:42 AM
well im not in australia but it is official 05.05.05 there :)

hehe maybe we need dr q to do some number crunching, any number crunching :)


wrldwzrd89
May 4, 2005, 11:44 AM
well im not in australia but it is official 05.05.05 there :)

hehe maybe we need dr q to do some number crunching, any number crunching :)
Well, if you start before 5 AM EDT 05/05/05 (tomorrow), when Hawaii goes to 05/05/05, MacRumors members in Hawaii might complain. Then again, the New Zealanders will complain because, by that time, it'll be 1 hour until 05/06/05...
mkrishnan
May 4, 2005, 11:50 AM
In that case, happy Cinco de Mayo de Cinco! :D
obeygiant
May 4, 2005, 11:51 AM
5 margaritas, 5 beers, 5 joints... pick your poison.
emw
May 4, 2005, 11:55 AM
I was just discussing this with a coworker earlier today - won't be another Cinco de Mayo like this for another 100 years. That definitely warrants a margarita or two...
virividox
May 4, 2005, 12:26 PM
ill be spending my cinco de mayo in the library bah exams looming of the horizon!!!
mactastic
May 4, 2005, 12:50 PM
5 margaritas, 5 beers, 5 joints... pick your poison.

Do I have to choose? :p
mkrishnan
May 4, 2005, 12:53 PM
Do I have to choose? :p

Hmmm 05/05/05...no, I'd say, you need to do one of them for each 05. :D
rainman::|:|
May 4, 2005, 01:30 PM
oh hell. i started too early.
stubeeef
May 4, 2005, 02:54 PM
oh hell. i started too early.

roflol,
:p
wdlove
May 4, 2005, 05:46 PM
I wish a happy Cinco de Mayo to all of our forum members that celebrate the holiday.

I'm sure that Doctor Q will take note of the 05/05/05, being significant to those interested in numbers.
Mechcozmo
May 4, 2005, 07:22 PM
I'm sure that Doctor Q will take note of the 05/05/05, being significant to those interested in numbers.

Doctor Q will probably post tomorrow at 5:55PM on 05/05/05 because that is the best time to post for a number-loving-Californian, so long as you aren't afraid of the number 5.
wdlove
May 4, 2005, 09:39 PM
Doctor Q will probably post tomorrow at 5:55PM on 05/05/05 because that is the best time to post for a number-loving-Californian, so long as you aren't afraid of the number 5.

5 happens to be my favorite number. Since Doctor Q hasn't posted yet, I think that you are probably > 50% correct. ;)
DeSnousa
May 5, 2005, 02:43 AM
Well, if you start before 5 AM EDT 05/05/05 (tomorrow), when Hawaii goes to 05/05/05, MacRumors members in Hawaii might complain. Then again, the New Zealanders will complain because, by that time, it'll be 1 hour until 05/06/05...

Not only that but it will be 06/05/05 ;) :D
wrldwzrd89
May 5, 2005, 08:13 AM
Not only that but it will be 06/05/05 ;) :D
Oh yeah, that's right - the New Zealanders have their dates in day/month/year order instead of month/day/year. Good point :) :cool:
Zenith
May 5, 2005, 09:08 AM
My girlfriend's birthday today! I already gave her an iPod and an iSight for christmas and valentine's day, so today it had to be something else than an Apple product.

It's funny that Apple products was the first thing that came to my mind when I bought her the first presents in our relationship. I guess it only proves Apple's big influence on me.
mkrishnan
May 5, 2005, 10:33 AM
Not only that but it will be 06/05/05 ;) :D

It will get more confusing when we get to 2007, and we and the Europeans are celebrating 05/06/07 on different days (May 6 and June 5?), and the New Zealanders are celebrating 07/06/05 at 04:03:02 in the morning! :eek:
craigdawg
May 5, 2005, 10:38 AM
Feliz Cinco de Mayo!
huck500
May 5, 2005, 11:11 AM
Check this out...I have 03-03-03 and 04-04-04....have to pick up the new one today!

Vertical Ale 05-05-05 (http://www.stonebrew.com/epic/detail.php?ReleaseYear=2005)
emw
May 5, 2005, 12:48 PM
My girlfriend's birthday today! I already gave her an iPod and an iSight for christmas and valentine's day, so today it had to be something else than an Apple product.

It's funny that Apple products was the first thing that came to my mind when I bought her the first presents in our relationship. I guess it only proves Apple's big influence on me.My birthday next year is 06/06/06. Cool. My daughter was born on 01/01/01. Cooler.
sorryiwasdreami
May 5, 2005, 01:01 PM
Hmmm 05/05/05...no, I'd say, you need to do one of them for each 05. :D

Or 5 each.
obeygiant
May 5, 2005, 01:02 PM
My birthday next year is 06/06/06. Cool. My daughter was born on 01/01/01. Cooler.


oh yeah, well, 6/9/69 :p
SilentPanda
May 5, 2005, 03:30 PM
oh yeah, well, 6/9/69 :p

But you were born in February? :confused:
clayj
May 5, 2005, 05:55 PM
It's now 5:55 PM EDT on 5/5/05.

I don't FEEL any different. :rolleyes:
virividox
May 5, 2005, 06:57 PM
oh no 3 min till its 6/5/05 here in the uk :(
Mechcozmo
May 5, 2005, 08:55 PM
Guess what time it is?

5:55 PM on 5/5/05! :D
clayj
May 5, 2005, 08:58 PM
So what time zone is God in, anyway? ;)

(10 points if you can name the movie in which this question is asked.)
comictimes
May 5, 2005, 09:12 PM
yeah... the seniors at my school had a field day today.

Although, I don't think it will be happen, but it would be awesome if my class got to graduate on 06/06/06.

666... hehe
mms
May 5, 2005, 10:28 PM
So what time zone is God in, anyway? ;)

(10 points if you can name the movie in which this question is asked.)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114558/
clayj
May 5, 2005, 10:30 PM
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114558/10 points for you! (Did you know the answer, or did you have to look it up?)
mms
May 5, 2005, 10:33 PM
It's called Google. If it counts for anything, I had heard of it before and seen the movie, but just couldn't place it.
StarbucksSam
May 5, 2005, 11:01 PM
It's also Thursday, the fifth day of the week.
Cheese
May 6, 2005, 01:26 AM
IT was different. My boss didn't yell at me today, actually he didn't talk to me at all! Cool!
Doctor Q
May 6, 2005, 01:53 AM
well im not in australia but it is official 05.05.05 there :)

hehe maybe we need dr q to do some number crunching, any number crunching :)Did I hear my name?

In case you were curious if I noticed the date, yes. I posted about 5/5/5 waaaaaay over here.

We had a little office celebration at 5/5/5 5:5:5. I'm not the only geek there. :eek:

Exciting number crunching:
5-5 => 0
5/5 => 1

That's all you need to build your own 5-based binary computer!
virividox
May 6, 2005, 09:03 AM
ah there is the master number cruncher :)
Mechcozmo
May 6, 2005, 10:20 AM
Exciting number crunching:
5-5 => 0
5/5 => 1

That's all you need to build your own 5-based binary computer!

I'll let you get started on that one... much rather just use the system of binary in place now (Base 8 IIRC).

It would be interesting however if there were more than just 0s and 1s... you could get a 33% increase in speed just by adding a 2! Oh, and you would need to totally re-create your vision of hardware as we know it. :rolleyes: Minor detail.
MongoTheGeek
May 6, 2005, 11:27 AM
I'll let you get started on that one... much rather just use the system of binary in place now (Base 8 IIRC).

It would be interesting however if there were more than just 0s and 1s... you could get a 33% increase in speed just by adding a 2! Oh, and you would need to totally re-create your vision of hardware as we know it. :rolleyes: Minor detail.

Imagine if you did base 10? All that speed.

What I would love to see is some MEMS people create Babbage's Analytic Engine.
Doctor Q
May 6, 2005, 12:48 PM
It would be interesting however if there were more than just 0s and 1s... you could get a 33% increase in speed just by adding a 2!I wrote a paper on three-valued logic for a math course - does that count? It was only about algorithms, however, not hardware.

Historically, there have been base-10 computers, particularly mechanical ones, and computers with word sizes that were not multiples of 2, although you don't see them around much anymore. Survival of the fittest.

For his landmark book series The Art of Computer Programming (http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/taocp.html), Donald Knuth invented a mythical computer named MIX (model number 1009 based on the interpretation of M I X as roman numerals). The MIX machine is programmed in assembly language and emulators have been written for all types of real computers. The remarkable thing about MIX is that the machine can be either binary or decimal, and the programmer doesn't know or care! In other words, an assembly language program is written that will run properly whether the program is run on a base 2 implementation or on a base 10 implementation. Ternary (base 3) implementations are even possible!

John Atanasoff (http://www.johnatanasoff.com/) gets some of the credit for realizing that computers would best operate in base 2. Remembering the 1937 project where he designed one of the first electronic computers on a cocktail napkin, he said "It was at an evening of bourbon and 100 mph car rides when the concept came, for an electronically operated machine, that would use base-two (binary) numbers instead of the traditional base-10 numbers, condensers for memory, and a regenerative process to preclude loss of memory from electrical failure."

So perhaps we're all using binary computers only because of a drunken speeder's fantasties! :)
Mechcozmo
May 6, 2005, 07:17 PM
I wrote a paper on three-valued logic for a math course - does that count? It was only about algorithms, however, not hardware.

Historically, there have been base-10 computers, particularly mechanical ones, and computers with word sizes that were not multiples of 2, although you don't see them around much anymore. Survival of the fittest.

For his landmark book series The Art of Computer Programming (http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/taocp.html), Donald Knuth invented a mythical computer named MIX (model number 1009 based on the interpretation of M I X as roman numerals). The MIX machine is programmed in assembly language and emulators have been written for all types of real computers. The remarkable thing about MIX is that the machine can be either binary or decimal, and the programmer doesn't know or care! In other words, an assembly language program is written that will run properly whether the program is run on a base 2 implementation or on a base 10 implementation. Ternary (base 3) implementations are even possible!

John Atanasoff (http://www.johnatanasoff.com/) gets some of the credit for realizing that computers would best operate in base 2. Remembering the 1937 project where he designed one of the first electronic computers on a cocktail napkin, he said "It was at an evening of bourbon and 100 mph car rides when the concept came, for an electronically operated machine, that would use base-two (binary) numbers instead of the traditional base-10 numbers, condensers for memory, and a regenerative process to preclude loss of memory from electrical failure."

So perhaps we're all using binary computers only because of a drunken speeder's fantasties! :)

You learn something new every day... amazing information! :D
russed
May 7, 2005, 04:00 PM
its rather sad to say but i was up at 05:05 on 05:05:05!