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On May 23, 11:30 pm, rusi <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 23, 5:30 am, Steven D'Aprano <steve
>
>
>
> +comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> > On Sun, 22 May 2011 15:39:33 -0700, Tim Roberts wrote:
> > > Stef Mientki <stef.mien...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > >>must of us will not use single bits these days, but at first sight, this
> > >>looks funny :
>
> > >>>>> a=2
> > >>>>> b=6
> > >>>>> a and b
> > >>6
> > >>>>> a & b
> > >>2
> > >>>>> a or b
> > >>2
> > >>>>> a | b
> > >>6
>
> > > That IS funny.  Interesting how a careful choice of arugments will fool
> > > us. One of my favorite math jokes is like that.  A teacher asked a
> > > student to reduce the following fraction:
> > >   16
> > >  ----
> > >   64
>
> > > He says "all I have to do is cancel out the sixes, so the answer is
> > > 1/4".
>
> > One of my favourite variations on this is by Abbott and Costello, where
> > Costello proves that 13*7 = 28 in three different ways.
>
> >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLprXHbn19I
>
> Ha Ha! [You're hired Steven]

And of course, a programmer cannot tell the difference between
Halloween and Christmas day.

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and becomes or and or becomes and Stef Mientki <stef.mientki@gmail.com> - 2011-05-22 21:23 +0200
  Re: and becomes or and or becomes and Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-05-22 23:57 +0200
    Re: and becomes or and or becomes and Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-05-22 18:14 -0400
  Re: and becomes or and or becomes and Tim Roberts <timr@probo.com> - 2011-05-22 15:39 -0700
    Re: and becomes or and or becomes and Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-05-23 09:28 +1000
    Re: and becomes or and or becomes and Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-05-23 00:30 +0000
      Re: and becomes or and or becomes and rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2011-05-23 08:30 -0700
        Re: and becomes or and or becomes and bch <bch.itbgcthate@gmail.com> - 2011-05-28 05:27 -0700
          Re: and becomes or and or becomes and Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-05-28 22:50 +1000
    Re: and becomes or and or becomes and Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2011-05-28 14:31 +0100
      Re: and becomes or and or becomes and Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-05-29 00:04 +1000

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