obfuscated

[Dave Thompson]

Ah yes, any computers out there using the 5-bit Baudot code are going
to print complete gibberish.

Not to mention that 'Baudot' (officially IA2, the International
(Teletype) Alphabet #2): does not have lowercase letters and several
punctuation or 'special' characters that are required in the basic
(minimum) execution character set; has codes for the digits that are
not consecutive as required, as well as being shift-state dependent
which may not be specifically prohibited but doesn't make sense for
the ctype.h functions.

Seriously, in IBM EBCDIC, the letters are not contiguous, due to it
being derived from BCD card codes, which as everybody knows, had nine
rows, so the letters are in groups of nine, with seven codes in between
to pad to the next multiple of 16.

Cards had nine digit rows plus three zone rows, twelve total; usually
only 0 and 1-9 were printed. "Bury me face down, 9 edge first."

- David.Thompson1 at worldnet.att.net

 

[Richard Heathfield]

Dave Thompson said:

s/ten/nine and eight (averaging 8.6overbar)/

Yes, I was relying on my (obviously faulty) memory. Later, I had occasion to
look the table up, and noted that the alphabet was in nines rather than
tens, but by then I didn't recall having claimed otherwise.

But you do rhyme with 'seas of green', FWIW.

Cue the solo on something brassy (tuba?).

 

[lawrence.jones]

Cards had nine digit rows plus three zone rows, twelve total; usually

Ten digit rows -- 0 can be either a zone or a digit, depending on the
particular usage.

-Larry Jones

I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple. -- Calvin