Comment on Why there is no clock that displays time 4:20:69 ?
vane@lemmy.world 1 week agoYeah 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 1 week 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.