Re: Graphic converter query - transparency

Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> zoara <me18@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Tell him he's technically wrong, and tell him that your easier solution
> is technically better bearing in mind his needs.  And then do it the
> easy way.

I've tried that.


> > 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. 
> 
> I'd call that less advanced than Basic.

It's mor advanced in other ways.

        -z-

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