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From: AWCTTYPA@UIAMVS.BITNET ("David A. Lyons")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: counting GS packages
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Date: 13 Nov 88 13:27:18 GMT
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>Date:         Fri, 4 Nov 88 12:52:46 EST
>From:         Dave Harvey <pnet01!pro-novapple!daveharv@NOSC.MIL>
>Subject:      Re: The good old days... (& more)

>[...] As someone recently commented, there's not too much GS specific
>software around.  You can count them on your fingers and toes.

If you count in binary with fingers and toes, you can go from 0 to
1,048,575.  (Not as hard as it sounds, with practice.  For fingers,
anyway--I've never tried including the toes, but then I've never
needed to count past 1023 anyway.)

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