[HN Gopher] Magic Numbers
       ___________________________________________________________________
        
       Magic Numbers
        
       Author : todsacerdoti
       Score  : 31 points
       Date   : 2024-04-24 20:50 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (exple.tive.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (exple.tive.org)
        
       | ano-ther wrote:
       | Reminds me of the Space Shuttle booster size being determined by
       | Roman horses.
       | 
       | But something seems off in the calculation. 2^12 microseconds for
       | one frame would be awfully slow. [EDIT: I stand corrected below]
       | 
       | > 12288 bits, which takes 2^12 microseconds to transmit at
       | 3Mb/second,
        
         | lilyball wrote:
         | That calculation is correct. 2^12 microseconds is 4096us, or
         | 0.004096s, and 12288b / 3Mbps is 12288 / 3000000 is 0.004096.
         | So yeah, just a hair over 4ms for 1536 bytes. Exceedingly slow
         | by modern standards.
        
           | ano-ther wrote:
           | Thanks. You are right of course.
        
         | oersted wrote:
         | Thanks for the Space Shuttle factoid, quite relevant to the OP
         | article
         | 
         | https://www.astrodigital.org/space/stshorse.html
        
         | jcranmer wrote:
         | > Reminds me of the Space Shuttle booster size being determined
         | by Roman horses.
         | 
         | A story that's passed around a million times whose truth
         | content is damn close to nothing?
        
       | Denvercoder9 wrote:
       | Why did it matter that a frame was transmitted in 2^12
       | microseconds, though? Why not 2^11 or 2^13?
        
       ___________________________________________________________________
       (page generated 2024-04-24 23:00 UTC)