Comment on Why there is no clock that displays time 4:20:69 ?
vane@lemmy.world 17 hours agoThank you for detailed explanation Sir. It proves me that time is evil because it uses three 6 bit counters (666). Replacing one counter with 7 bit that displays 69 would for sure fix the world.
litchralee@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
I should point out that for the hour counter, it’s only a 5 bit counter, since the max value for hours is 23, which fits into 5 bits.
So 566 is not quite the devil’s work, but certainly very close.
vane@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Yeah but isn’t it cheaper and less error prone to put only 6 bit counters instead of maintaining 5 bit counter stockpile in the factory ? Maybe it’s all robots right now so it doesn’t matter.
litchralee@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
It can be, although the example I’ve given where each counter is a discrete part is probably no longer the case. It’s likely that larger ICs which encompass all the requisite functionality can do the job, at lower cost than individual parts.
But those ICs probably can’t do 4:20:69, so I didn’t bother mentioning that.