Re: Graphic converter query - transparency

Pd <peterd.news@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> zoara <me18@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Maximum number of days in a month?

No. He'd worked out some way of (apparently) getting the shortest
possible unique identifier for a given ticket[1]. I'm not sure how base
31 was going to create shorter identifiers than, say, using all the
alphanumerics, ie base 36.

But, as I said, he's a dork.

Worst of it is, I've got to do this using a proprietary scripting
language that is little more advanced than BASIC - it only has about
thirty-odd functions, and it's not possible write your own. It's more
than a bit frustrating - I keep getting asked to do things that are easy
in other languages, I say "yeah, piece of cake", then actually start
trying to do it and realise it's not actually possible. Subtracting five
minutes from a time value? Yeah, piece of cake. *furtle* Oh, hold on a
sec...

Anyway, rant over.

        -z-



[1] His reasoning for it being short is that the system runs on a Pocket
PC /Windows Mobile / WinCE or whatever they're called these days and
it's tricky to type long strings. I don't think he's clocked that there
is no need for the operator to ever type a ticket identifier though. I
don't think he's clocked very much, to be honest.

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