Happy birthday Debian!! Still my distro after all these years! :)
Came here expecting a funny new bug or CVE, found a dad joke instead.
And yes I’ve found few things as stable as Debian. I dual boot with windows, come back after months to see an update is all i need. Cannot say the same about arch etc.
100000nd* birthday
binary one-zero-zero-zero-zero-zero th
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It's not linguistically correct for Nth to be used with a binary number, right? It's not like we would say 0b10nd, would we?
I mean, I get the intent with Debian's post, and I think it's fun! I'm more curious if there's other suffixes to use for this kind of thing when it's not base10
100000th is syntactically correct. That it's semantically binary rather than decimal is the joke.
> I'm more curious if there's other suffixes to use for this kind of thing when it's not base10
No, of course not ... why would there be?
We don't say oneth, twoth, or threeth, we say first (1st), second (2nd), and third (3rd). For all other digits and numbers not ending with 1, 2, or 3 we use th. So zeroth (0th), tenth (10th), hundredth (100th), hundred thousandth (100000th). Stick 0b in front and it's 0b100000th.
I don't think this happens enough for us to be able to derive descriptive usage, never mind prescriptive rules.
All that matters is the last digit, so "th" is correct. In binary you would just have _th and _st.
I am definitely having a birthday party when I turn 1,000,000. :)
Ingrid Daubechies threw a big party on her 64th birthday and invited all her old students and collaborators; we even had a conference around it.
That's a great idea and I might steal it. I even know which song to play.
I will always have a soft spot in my heart for Debian. It always seemed the most true to a lot of the early Linux/OSS principles.
I can’t remember why I picked Debian in early aughts but I’m glad I did. Happy birthday!
Debian isn't always my first choice, but it is my favorite choice when I build systems that need to stand the test of time.
Happy birthday Debian, RIP Murdock, it’s my go to distro for headless.
Congratulations! Love what this project has done for software. It is amazing.
Deb and Ian
RIP Ian
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Murdock
Great Scott! A reminder in the nick of time.
Happy #b10000, TXR.
August 2009 - August 2015.
Debian is a gift.
Happy birthday Debian!! Still my distro after all these years! :)
Came here expecting a funny new bug or CVE, found a dad joke instead.
And yes I’ve found few things as stable as Debian. I dual boot with windows, come back after months to see an update is all i need. Cannot say the same about arch etc.
100000nd* birthday
binary one-zero-zero-zero-zero-zero th
It's not linguistically correct for Nth to be used with a binary number, right? It's not like we would say 0b10nd, would we?
I mean, I get the intent with Debian's post, and I think it's fun! I'm more curious if there's other suffixes to use for this kind of thing when it's not base10
100000th is syntactically correct. That it's semantically binary rather than decimal is the joke.
> I'm more curious if there's other suffixes to use for this kind of thing when it's not base10
No, of course not ... why would there be?
We don't say oneth, twoth, or threeth, we say first (1st), second (2nd), and third (3rd). For all other digits and numbers not ending with 1, 2, or 3 we use th. So zeroth (0th), tenth (10th), hundredth (100th), hundred thousandth (100000th). Stick 0b in front and it's 0b100000th.
I don't think this happens enough for us to be able to derive descriptive usage, never mind prescriptive rules.
All that matters is the last digit, so "th" is correct. In binary you would just have _th and _st.
I am definitely having a birthday party when I turn 1,000,000. :)
Ingrid Daubechies threw a big party on her 64th birthday and invited all her old students and collaborators; we even had a conference around it.
That's a great idea and I might steal it. I even know which song to play.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_I%27m_Sixty-Four