Subj : Penguins Byte
To   : Mortar M.
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Tue Jul 28 2026 03:17 pm

Hey Mortar!

> I noticed that the number of penguins equals a word (two bytes).

Number of penguins equals nproc, which is according to 'nproc --help';

> Print the number of processing units available to the current process,
> which may be less than the number of online processors.

Note that in this reply it is equal to the number of online processors, 12.  
The msg you replied to was posted from the Europoint which has 16 online 
processors.  Individual penguin orientation is random and is limited to right 
or left facing.  So far that is all there is to what I am calling the 'Penguin 
Matrix'.

Life is good, 
Maurice

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