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Pom Pey put me off a making a fiendish puzzle, so blame him and here's a more straightforward one - but I quite like it!
Beat the cat, dog. (7)
modified 15-Jan-18 4:16am.
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WHIPPET
Beat WHIP
the cat, PET dog.
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Good boy!
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Woof! Woof!
Do I get a biscuit?
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Are you one of those K-9's that pretend to go outside and do their "business" just to get a treat.
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Anything for a Scooby snack!
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I wish I'd had one when I was a kid!
Ladies and Gentlebeings, I present: The mechanical digital computer[^]
Please tell me one of you had one!
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yes, but you did have BASIC, and from that the magical world of visual basic
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Not in '63 I didn't!
I probably had crayons and difficulty in writing my ABC's...
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But this thing was actually programmable!
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++?????++ Out of Cheese Error. Redo From Start.
Error at Address Number 6, Treacle Mine Road.
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Twatter
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Of course.
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As a mathematician, I prefer the Curta calculator. I bought a Type II model.
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Hello
In my project I need a checksum algorithm that never produce zero.
I am wondering if there is one!
SignatureNotFoundException
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None that I know of: zero is normally a valid result in all systems.
About the best I can think of is that you add data to the checksum: maybe convert it to hex digits, so a zero checksum would produce "00" instead of '\0'
Why on earth do you think you need this?
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OriginalGriff wrote: Why on earth do you think you need this?
I'm guessing the thinking is if the checksum byte/word... is zero then it's not a checksum - OIOW a lazy way to check for the presense of a checksum (albeit not the correctness).
Signature ready for installation. Please Reboot now.
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I'm guessing that he's trying to use strings instead of byte arrays, and doesn;t want a zero as a null terminator - in which case he has some much bigger problems coming ...
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There are checksums that can result in 0 but not in 65535 (or 232-1, if you need it that big). Add 1.
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Or string concat (prefix) a 1 or any other number to the left of the generated checksum. (would potentially need a bigger db column type)
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Follow up question. Is there one that doesn’t produce a result of “10”?
I'm pretty sure I would not like to live in a world in which I would never be offended.
I am absolutely certain I don't want to live in a world in which you would never be offended.
Freedom doesn't mean the absence of things you don't like.
Dave
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+5 for the best and most simple solution.
Jeremy Falcon
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