Re: Was: REQ: Star Shape. Now: Funny off topics...

Rozberk Omniist wrote:
> 
> [in the attempt to keep a good laugh line going...]
> >>
> >> >here is mine:
> >> >
> >> >*
> >> >
> >> >(sorry, I just had to... :D  but it does have five points on my
> >> >screen....)
> >>
> >> Nope, couldn't find that key on the keyboard anywhere.  All I could
> >> find was a six-pointed star key.
> [snip]
> >> ..., but I agree.  Absurdities exists everywhere.  ;]
> [snip,tuck]
> >But you`re absolutely right! My key also has six points.... but on the
> >_screen_ the star gets five points.... [who can explain this great
> >mystery? ;D ]
> >
> >--
> >:)
> >Veronica
> >( e93...@sm.luth.se  http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/ )
> 
> And welcome to "Little Know Facts about ASCII"!!!  And to win todays
> ascii-drawing of a million dollars, which contestant can answer these
> questions....
> 
> 1.  What are the corrent names for these characters?
> ~ ^ & | {} and #

hmmmm.... let me see...... '~' is called "gnurk" (as in wrinkled up
piece of paper, homemade word), '^' is called "tak" ("roof" in English),
'|' is called "dumt litet tecken som �r j�tteknepigt att f� r�tt"
("silly little charachter that is very difficult to get right"), '{' and
'}' are called "m�svingar" ("seagull wings") and '#' is called
"br�dg�rd" (lets see what the word book says..... "timber-yard" or
"lumberyard" if you are American)

> 
> 2.  What control character is designated as the "bell"?
> (we'll accept either ascii code or control keys)

ok, lets consult the computer on that one....

     Hexadecimal - Character

     | 00 NUL| 01 SOH| 02 STX| 03 ETX| 04 EOT| 05 ENQ| 06 ACK| 07 BEL|
     | 08 BS | 09 HT | 0A NL | 0B VT | 0C NP | 0D CR | 0E SO | 0F SI |
     | 10 DLE| 11 DC1| 12 DC2| 13 DC3| 14 DC4| 15 NAK| 16 SYN| 17 ETB|
     | 18 CAN| 19 EM | 1A SUB| 1B ESC| 1C FS | 1D GS | 1E RS | 1F US |
     | 20 SP | 21  ! | 22  " | 23  # | 24  $ | 25  % | 26  & | 27  ' |
     | 28  ( | 29  ) | 2A  * | 2B  + | 2C  , | 2D  - | 2E  . | 2F  / |
     | 30  0 | 31  1 | 32  2 | 33  3 | 34  4 | 35  5 | 36  6 | 37  7 |
     | 38  8 | 39  9 | 3A  : | 3B  ; | 3C  < | 3D  = | 3E  > | 3F  ? |
     | 40  @ | 41  A | 42  B | 43  C | 44  D | 45  E | 46  F | 47  G |
     | 48  H | 49  I | 4A  J | 4B  K | 4C  L | 4D  M | 4E  N | 4F  O |
     | 50  P | 51  Q | 52  R | 53  S | 54  T | 55  U | 56  V | 57  W |
     | 58  X | 59  Y | 5A  Z | 5B  [ | 5C  \ | 5D  ] | 5E  ^ | 5F  _ |
     | 60  ` | 61  a | 62  b | 63  c | 64  d | 65  e | 66  f | 67  g |
     | 68  h | 69  i | 6A  j | 6B  k | 6C  l | 6D  m | 6E  n | 6F  o |
     | 70  p | 71  q | 72  r | 73  s | 74  t | 75  u | 76  v | 77  w |
     | 78  x | 79  y | 7A  z | 7B  { | 7C  | | 7D  } | 7E  ~ | 7F DEL|

And the answer is: 07 (hexadecimal, that would be 7 with decimal numbers
too since it is less than 10)

> 
> 3.  [tricky] Using the american extended ASCII [sometimes called
> "Standard Extended ASCII"?], how many characters can be called
> "letters" in both english and foreign languages?
> (hint: this is like your "Terminal Font" on Windows-based computers)

I can only compare the Swedish and English alphabet but here are the
letters:

Swedish: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUV XYZ���abcdefghijklmnopqrstuv xyz���
English: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ   abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

So if I compare these two I get it to 25 letters in common ('w' is not
considered a letter of its own in Swedish, just as an oldfashioned 'v'
and it does not have a section of its own in dictionaries...)

Can anybody narrow this down furhter?

> 
> And as a special bonus quesiton:  Why is the five-pointed "star"
> charater shown as a "six"-pointed star on the IBM-compatible keyboard?

because they were designed by different people?

> (no fair looking at the "8" key, either)

I've got '8', '(' and '[' on my "8" key :)

> 
> Thanks for playing!!  Goo'day.

Tell me, how did I do on the test? 

-- 
:)
Veronica
( e93...@sm.luth.se  http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/ )

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