Re: Puzzle Solution

[hjohnson@pluto.njcc.com (Herbert R Johnson)]

On Tue, 20 Oct 1998 12:04:26 -0500, Tom Droege <droege@fnal.gov> wrote:
*>I would like to congratulate Andrew Bennett for correctly solving the
*>puzzle.  Below is his complete solution:
*>
*>>
*>>It looks a lot like you are getting the wrong high order
*>>byte - either the one before or the one after.
*>>
*>>Andrew Bennett, Avondale Vineyard, Nova Scotia, Canada.
*>>

Facinating! I was suspecious of a byte order problem: it did not
occur to me casually it was a "byte sequence" problem. Congratulations!

Tom, as you are looking at all the bits, let us know when you have
a measure for the reliable dynamic range of the new design. We've
talked about data compression recently, and a simple compression
scheme would be to remove the lowest and presumably unreliable bits.
And of course it affects small difference measurements and so on.

Herb Johnson

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