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  Fizz Buzz jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> - 2026-07-23 17:39 -0400
    Re: Fizz Buzz Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2026-07-23 23:19 -0400
      Re: Fizz Buzz jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> - 2026-07-25 12:00 -0400
        Re: Fizz Buzz Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2026-07-25 18:05 -0400
          Re: Fizz Buzz jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> - 2026-07-26 11:12 -0400
        Accumulator naming Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2026-07-29 18:10 -0400
          Re: Accumulator naming scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-07-30 15:14 +0000
            Re: old architectures, was Accumulator naming John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2026-07-30 20:40 +0000
            Re: Accumulator naming Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2026-07-30 18:41 -0400
          Re: Accumulator naming jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> - 2026-07-30 11:24 -0400
            Re: Accumulator naming scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-07-30 16:03 +0000
            Re: Accumulator naming Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2026-07-30 18:56 -0400
              Re: Accumulator naming cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2026-07-30 23:48 +0000
                Re: Accumulator naming John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2026-07-31 01:31 +0000
                  Re: Accumulator naming cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2026-07-31 02:52 +0000
                    Re: Accumulator naming John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2026-07-31 03:36 +0000
                    Re: Accumulator naming Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2026-07-31 13:40 +0000
            Re: Accumulator naming Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2026-07-31 13:35 +0000
            the Ten Heavenly Stems (was Re: Accumulator naming) Kragen Javier Sitaker <kragen@canonical.org> - 2026-09-11 16:07 -0300
              Re: the Ten Heavenly Stems (was Re: Accumulator naming) Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2026-09-14 01:12 +0800
                Re: the Ten Heavenly Stems (was Re: Accumulator naming) Kragen Javier Sitaker <kragen@canonical.org> - 2026-09-14 14:40 -0300
                  Re: the Ten Heavenly Stems (was Re: Accumulator naming) scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-09-14 18:09 +0000
                  Re: the Ten Heavenly Stems (was Re: Accumulator naming) quadibloc@invalid.com (John Savard) - 2026-10-26 03:00 +0000
    Re: Fizz Buzz "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2026-08-21 13:27 +0100

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#10000 — Re: the Ten Heavenly Stems (was Re: Accumulator naming)

Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> writes:
> On 12/09/2026 3:07 AM, Kragen Javier Sitaker wrote:
>> jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> writes:
>>> It's easier, at least for me, to make a “mental map” of where things are
>>> when they have names rather than numbers, even if those names are
>>> short. It's easier to recall “watermellon”, “apple”, “grape” than 39,
>>> 23, 5 even though both sets are decending in magnitude.  [...]
>> In English, Hebrew, Greek, etc., the obvious alternative to numbers
>> is to use letters of the alphabet: register A, register B, register
>> C, etc.  In Chinese, of course, there is no alphabet, but, as I
>> understand it (my Chinese is mostly limited to reading datasheets),
>> the Ten Heavenly Stems <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavenly_Stems>
>> and Twelve Earthly Branches
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthly_Branches> are used in much the
>> same way.  [...]
>
> You can add to this list a few hieroglyphs.  There are a little over se-
> ven hundred in the standard /middle egyptian/ and you can see most of
> them at the back of Gardiner's book.  Well, probably all of them in the
> most recent edition. [...]

Is there a sequence of hieroglyphs that is conventionally used as
ordinals in the way that the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches are?

Kragen

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#10001 — Re: the Ten Heavenly Stems (was Re: Accumulator naming)

please remove comp.arch from this thread

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#10014 — Re: the Ten Heavenly Stems (was Re: Accumulator naming)

>> On 12/09/2026 3:07 AM, Kragen Javier Sitaker wrote:

>>> In English, Hebrew, Greek, etc., the obvious alternative to numbers
>>> is to use letters of the alphabet: register A, register B, register
>>> C, etc.  In Chinese, of course, there is no alphabet, but, as I
>>> understand it (my Chinese is mostly limited to reading datasheets),
>>> the Ten Heavenly Stems <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavenly_Stems>
>>> and Twelve Earthly Branches
>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthly_Branches> are used in much the
>>> same way.  [...]

Also, for numbering things 1 to 1000, Chinese sometimes uses the text
of the Thousand Character Classic. One example of this is the use of
the first *eighty* characters from the Thousand Character Classic for
a game essentially equivalent to Keno.

John Savard

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#9963

On Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:39:22 -0400
jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> wrote:

> As I continue on with MACRO-20, I thought I'd share my Fizz Buzz
> solution for TOPS-10 and TOPS-20. I wanted the solution where you stuff
[]
> If other alt.lang.asm'ers want to do Fizz Buzz, don't forget to remove
> the pdp10 newsgroup from your reply if it's not about the pdp10.
BTDT.

->           d 100 l3D
1F6D:0100 89 D7 BE 28-01 B1 04 75-05 88 64 FE-F2 A4 01 CE  ...(...u..d.....
1F6D:0110 FE 04 AD 7E-F0 D4 0A 86-E0 0D 30 30-39 FA 75 01  ...~......009.u.
1F6D:0120 AB A5 A4 3C-3A B4 09 CD-21 7C D5 C3-FD FD 46 69  ...<:...!|....Fi
1F6D:0130 7A-7A FB FB 42-75 7A 7A 00-09 0D 0A 24           zz..Buzz....$
->         

Bah, and indeed, Humbug

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