the encyclpedia wand's a theoretical puzzle, like zeno's
paradox. the idea is t'engrave the entire encyclopedia onto
a single toothpick. know how to do it?
- you tell me.
you take your information, your encyclopedia text, and you
transpose it into numerics. you assign everything a two
digit number, periods and commas included. 00 is a blank, a
is a 01, b is 02, and so on. then after you've lined them
all up, you put a decimal point before the whole lot. so now
you've got a very long sub-decimal fraction. 0.173000631...
next, you engrave a mark at exactly that point along the
toothpick. if 0.500000's your exact middle on the
thoothpick, then 0.3333's got t'be the third of the way from
the tip. you follow?
the professor explaining some basics to the calcutec.
hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world
haruki murakami
isbn 1-86046-905-1
submitted by mahal who thought of
converting fractures to float without
leaving the hex.
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