[CALUG] June Meeting Announcement -- Binary Representation of Data

Thomas Delrue thomas at epistulae.net
Sun Jun 9 20:10:46 EDT 2019


Zeroes and ones... pfff! Back in the day when I started, we only had
zeroes... (and we were happy, Sir, we were happy!) Young'ens these days,
they'll come up with anything!
Ones...where do they even get these ideas?

Seriously though, I'm looking forward to this talk! :)

On 6/9/19 7:05 PM, Chuck Frain wrote:
> Greetings All,
> 
> For the June 12, 2019 CALUG meeting we will be discussing Binary
> Representation of Data.
> 
> You know that computers do their work in binary, in ones and zeroes. But
> have you ever stopped to think about which ones? And which zeroes? Learn
> the difference, at least to the computer between 1, 1, and 1, or more
> precisely, 1.0, '1', and 1. No knowledge of programming is required,
> although you mind learn some things that even highly-experienced
> programmers do not know.
> 
> We will be hosted at the UMBC Training Center, located at 6996 Columbia
> Gateway Dr #100, Columbia, MD 21046. When you walk in through the mail
> lobby make a right. We will be at the end of the hall in the last room
> on the right. Our friends at Aplura will be providing the pizza and soda
> starting at 6:30. The talk will start about 7pm.
> 
> We are looking for speakers for the upcoming months. If you have a topic
> you would like to present on, please let me know and I’ll get you scheduled.
> 
> http://calug.org
> https://www.umbctraining.com/Home
> https://aplura.com
> https://www.nsa.gov/about/cryptologic-heritage/museum/

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