in reply to word size

perl -e' use strict; my $bina; my $count; my $bits = ~(64); while ($bits) { prbit($bits); $bits >>= 1; $count++; } sub prbit { my $bi=shift; $bina.=($bi%2)? "0":"1"; } $bina=reverse($bina); print "$bina\n$count bit words are being used.\n";' __OUTPUTS__ 00000000000000000000000001000000 32 bit words are being used.
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Re^2: word size
by collin (Scribe) on Sep 12, 2005 at 23:51 UTC
    Ahh..at least someone is going to humor me! We find ourselves with a fun base_10 to base_2 conversion.
    GOT_VOTES:{($collin{votes} > 0) ? do{$chanio++;last} : goto GOT_VOTES}
    :o)