Re: Graphic converter query - transparency

"zoara" <me18@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Pd <peterd.news@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Jim <jim@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> > > <very puzzled again>  No, 600+kB/s is around about 338kB/s as far
as
>> > > handwaving regarding this sort of thing goes.  Double or half the 
>> > > data
>> > > rate is `about the same'; ten times or a tenth isn't.
>> >
>> > That's subjective of course. To me, double-or-half isn't "about the
>> > same" at all, it's significantly different.
>>
>> Indeed - it's an order of magnitude in binary.
>
> A couple of days ago, someone at work asked me whether I could write
> something that incremented values in base 31. Even after he explained, I
> still couldn't work out why he chose such an arbitrary base.
>
> Actually, I can, because he's a dork.

If it was base 32 it would make more sense.
Well, if you had something with 5 bit words it would anyway.

-- 
Woody