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[Heartbreaker]

14 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

Yes they would, as a zero! Or more precisely, an amount of current low enough to represent the off state.

Sure, you could imagine a compression routine that didn't store those leading zeros, but that would only make sense if the size of the field could be described in fewer bits than the leading zeros. I don't know enough about compression algorithms to say whether that does exist, but I doubt it.

But as for how the raw binary is stored in memory, the leading zeros are there. You may as well say that the leading 1s don't need to be stored.

Mathematically you're right, but that's not quite how computers work when we get so low level.

 

Thats very interesting; I've just started (2 months in) to work embedded systems module at uni, we've been told by our lecturer that the 0's can be dropped to only store from the most significant bit (? The first 1 as he put it ?) in an effort to increase the efficiency of the retrieval of data.

I shall put this to him on Thursday and see what he has to say! 

Edited May 17, 2016 by Heartbreaker

[Gnomicide]

What has happened to the dearest of threads? 

Come on Glade, Shangri-La, Pilton Palais. ... anyone! Give us an announcement to get us back on track!

[Guest]

17 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

Yes they would, as a zero! Or more precisely, an amount of current low enough to represent the off state.

Sure, you could imagine a compression routine that didn't store those leading zeros, but that would only make sense if the size of the field could be described in fewer bits than the leading zeros. I don't know enough about compression algorithms to say whether that does exist, but I doubt it.

But as for how the raw binary is stored in memory, the leading zeros are there. You may as well say that the leading 1s don't need to be stored.

Mathematically you're right, but that's not quite how computers work when we get so low level.

 

It is voltage that is the important in logic levels mate. 

[Gnomicide]

Jesus Christ! Now the Manchester School of Science us joining in!

[Heartbreaker]

3 minutes ago, Gnomicide said:

Jesus Christ! Now the Manchester School of Science us joining in!

Hahaha. My apologies for my part in the spectacular de-railing of this thread. 

[Charm]

8 minutes ago, Gnomicide said:

What has happened to the dearest of threads? 

Come on Glade, Shangri-La, Pilton Palais. ... anyone! Give us an announcement to get us back on track!

Agreed, this is worse than discussing types of bread. 
Charm x

[Woffy]

I feel like Arneus fleeing Τροία.

[Woffy]

So is the Matrix real then or what?

[morph100]

There is no spoon, or big line up poster

[Spindles]

Anything would be better than this drought of information :s

[stuartbert two hats]

30 minutes ago, Heartbreaker said:

Thats very interesting; I've just started (2 months in) to work embedded systems module at uni, we've been told by our lecturer that the 0's can be dropped to only store from the most significant bit (? The first 1 as he put it ?) in an effort to increase the efficiency of the retrieval of data.

I shall put this to him on Thursday and see what he has to say! 

Trust what @eastynh says over me. He knows this subject better than I do. If he says I'm wrong, I probably am!

[waterfalls212434]

getting a bit tiresome now, forget end of april its only half a month till june and we still dont know a fair amount of the lineup let alone any useful info to start an accurate clashfinder. 

[home to you]

The regular folk that don't use the forum/follow efests must be tearing their hair out! 

[Acid_Haze]

25 minutes ago, waterfalls212434 said:

getting a bit tiresome now, forget end of april its only half a month till june and we still dont know a fair amount of the lineup let alone any useful info to start an accurate clashfinder. 

I agree, though it's still better than it was last year.

[dentalplan]

I guess it has become a bit exhausting the past week or so. They're fine to do it however they like, but the all round line up discussion is at a relatively low point now we've dissected the poster relentlessly and the drip feed of stages has dried up.

I think today is seven weeks since the poster dropped; last year the line up came out seven weeks after the poster and the year before was six weeks and six days so pattern fans can look forward to tomorrow.

[Acid_Haze]

11 minutes ago, dentalplan said:

I guess it has become a bit exhausting the past week or so. They're fine to do it however they like, but the all round line up discussion is at a relatively low point now we've dissected the poster relentlessly and the drip feed of stages has dried up.

I think today is seven weeks since the poster dropped; last year the line up came out seven weeks after the poster and the year before was six weeks and six days so pattern fans can look forward to tomorrow.

I'd love it to be tomorrow but I just think if it was, we'd have been told about it by someone in the know, and we haven't

[supreme]

It's my birthday tomorrow so my birthday present from Emily is to drop the whole lineup tomorrow

[dentalplan]

4 minutes ago, Acid_Haze said:

I'd love it to be tomorrow but I just think if it was, we'd have been told about it by someone in the know, and we haven't

Yep. It's never a surprise; someone does always warn us.

How long ago was Emily Eavis' 'couple of weeks' thing? Was it last week? I can't find it.

[Gucci Piggy]

30 minutes ago, dentalplan said:

Yep. It's never a surprise; someone does always warn us.

How long ago was Emily Eavis' 'couple of weeks' thing? Was it last week? I can't find it.

Yep, last week.

[Guest]

2 hours ago, Heartbreaker said:

Hahaha. My apologies for my part in the spectacular de-railing of this thread. 

I am ok with logic and electronics. Long time since I did FPGA and embedded systems though. Thankfully I forgot about that when I left uni, although not as quickly as I tried to forget about control.

1 hour ago, stuartbert two hats said:

Trust what @eastynh says over me. He knows this subject better than I do. If he says I'm wrong, I probably am!

Only one the current part mate, the rest of what you said went right over my head.

2 hours ago, Gnomicide said:

Jesus Christ! Now the Manchester School of Science us joining in!

Anything that gets high, i take a passing interest in mate 

[djdavejohnson]

8 hours ago, dentalplan said:

I guess it has become a bit exhausting the past week or so. They're fine to do it however they like, but the all round line up discussion is at a relatively low point now we've dissected the poster relentlessly and the drip feed of stages has dried up.

I think today is seven weeks since the poster dropped; last year the line up came out seven weeks after the poster and the year before was six weeks and six days so pattern fans can look forward to tomorrow.

I'm liking this school of thought. There must be a reason the stage announcements have dried up somewhat. What with the Shangri-la comments yesterday re their announcements coming over the next few weeks, I think the BIG announcement may actually come this week. Today even! Here's hoping!

[John the Moth]

I think I can smell fresh ink....

[emmett milbarge]

I've been bold and tweeted Emily.

[FuzzyDunlop]

9 minutes ago, emmett milbarge said:

I've been bold and tweeted Emily.

Ive been told, that you've been bold, with Harry, Mark and John.

[emmett milbarge]

1 minute ago, FuzzyDunlop said:

Ive been told, that you've been bold, with Harry, Mark and John.

This made me smile