Python Gotcha with Octal Numbers

[jmfbahciv at aol.com]

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   claird at starbase.neosoft.com (Cameron Laird) wrote:
>In article <3C6DA497.9AB8D624 at ev1.net>,
>Charles Richmond  <richmond at ev1.net> wrote:
>>jmfbahciv at aol.com wrote:
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>>> I do have two memoes that I found in my office boxes that were
>>> addressed to PDP-1 users.  I don't know the people who wrote
>>> them (Roland Silver, Edward Fredkin) nor where they were.
>>> 
>>>      [snip...]     [snip...]     [snip...]
>>> 
>>> Well, if you can give me a clue about these memoes that I have, I'd
>>> appreciate it.
>>> 
>>Ed Fredkin is semi-famous. He was mentioned prominantly in David
>>Levy's book _Hackers_. He also invented some data structures that
>>are used today, notably the "trie". 
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>Oh, yes.  There's a whole cult around Fredkin
><URL: http://www.digitalphilosophy.org/ >.
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>It's one to which I'm sympathetic, as it happens.


Thanks.  Now I'll have to arrange a trip to the library to
see if this site has these memoes on-line.  

/BAH

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