Lies in education [was Re: The "loop and a half"]

[Steve D'Aprano]

On Fri, 13 Oct 2017 09:47 pm, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:

> "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet3 at hjp.at>:
> 
>> On 2017-10-13 05:28, Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>>> Not only does "byte" not always mean "8 bits", but
>>> "char" isn't always short for "character"...
>>
>> True.
> 
> Well, it does, in my universe. That was cast in stone 10**-32 seconds
> after the Big Bang.

You've never had char-grilled peppers? *wink*



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Steve
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