and becomes or and or becomes and

[bch]

On May 23, 11:30 pm, rusi <rustompm... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 23, 5:30 am, Steven D'Aprano <steve
>
>
>
> +comp.lang.pyt... at pearwood.info> wrote:
> > On Sun, 22 May 2011 15:39:33 -0700, Tim Roberts wrote:
> > > Stef Mientki <stef.mien... at 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.