{"id":1136,"date":"2006-06-24T20:24:09","date_gmt":"2006-06-24T23:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2006-06-25T00:14:18","modified_gmt":"2006-06-25T03:14:18","slug":"36-and-integers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1136","title":{"rendered":"36 and integers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">Y<\/span>esterday, CBC&#8217;s &#8220;Information Morning&#8221; celebrated its 36 anniversary, which you can tell from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/informationmorningns\/\">this page<\/a> <sup>1<\/sup>. Look at the tiny pictures! While plenty of people complain about the local CBC station and its programme, I prefer it above the other (local) commercial radiostation(s). Add to that, the CBC sometimes really plays weird or never-heard-of-type-of-music (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1067\">earlier on xsamplex<\/a>).\n <\/p>\n<p>As a programmer to a programmer, I&#8217;d like to thank Alfons for reminding me about shifting bits. As a bonus, go back to square one with Wikipedia&#8217;s explanation of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bit_shifting\">bitwise operations<\/a>. Back in 1845, the German mathematician Kronecker said that <em>&#8216;God made the integers; all else is the work of man&#8217;<\/em>, which keeps me wondering what <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Integer_%28computer_science%29\">type of integers<\/a> he was talking about <sup>2<\/sup>.\n<\/p>\n<p>So, if &#8216;hearts are for love and hope&#8217;, what is the origin of the English word <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webster.com\/cgi-bin\/dictionary?sourceid=Mozilla-search&#038;va=heart\">&#8216;heart&#8217;<\/a>? And why do we associate our central organ with love? Our obsession with everything meat springs in my mind: from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=610\">&#8216;hamburger time&#8217;<\/a> (I guess, I&#8217;m referring to certain scenes in that movie) to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cannibalism\">cannibalism<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.ca\/search?hl=en&#038;q=eat+your+heart+out&#038;btnG=Google+Search&#038;meta=\">Eat your heart out!<\/a> <sup>3<\/sup>\n<\/p>\n<p><small><sup>1<\/sup> Most likely that link will cease to exists in a couple of days.<br \/>\n<sup>2<\/sup> Slightly related: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Integer_overflow\">Integer overflow<\/a>&#8220;<br \/>\n<sup>3<\/sup> On a serious note, In 2002 <a href=\"http:\/\/ww2.heartandstroke.ca\/Page.asp?PageID=24\">cardiovascular disease accounted for 74,6261 Canadian deaths<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, CBC&#8217;s &#8220;Information Morning&#8221; celebrated its 36 anniversary, which you can tell from this page 1. Look at the tiny pictures! While plenty of people complain about the local CBC station and its programme, I prefer it above the other &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1136\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}