Cruel unending drama.The poem below was composed under a double constraint, which was to encode (1) To assign a code to represent data, such as a parts code. Contrast with decode. (2) To convert from one format or signal to another. See codec and D/A converter. (3) The term is sometimes erroneously used for "encrypt. the first 85 decimal digits of two well-known irrational numbers. Can the reader discover what those numbers are, and how they are encoded?
Will keeping dogma alter evil, sir?
(Black, familiar evil--war, even:
"HOLY" its government-issued, musty label)
Civic hero, new pup, bureaucrat,
political doer commencing campaign
(having weak logic, generally),
Intellectual of top local renown,
religious, doddering king
(improbably governing): All poison.
Seeking comfort, I interview myself.
Questions, enigmas (always the enigmas!) rise, vexing;
tired senses gasp.
Nincompoop succeeds nincompoop,
damning oneself.
Still voting, mumbling typical good-honest-king pap?
Drop tomorrow!
Forget barbaric history!
Follow life!
(Then, revelling steadily, ski round frosty, big Romania.)
The poem is based on the first 85 digits of both [pi] and e. The digits of [pi] are encoded in the initial letter of successive words, by taking the letter value (A=1, B=2, etc.) modulo A mathematical operation (modulus arithmetic) in which the result is the remainder of a division. Also known as the "remainder operator," it is used to solve a variety of problems. For example, the following code in the C language determines if a number is odd or even. 10, or, equivalently, the last digit of the letter value. The digits of e are encoded by the final letter of successive words, using the same encoding scheme. The title is a separate three-digit mnemonic Pronounced "ni-mon-ic." A memory aid. In programming, it is a name assigned to a machine function. For example, COM1 is the mnemonic assigned to serial port #1 on a PC. Programming languages are almost entirely mnemonics. for both numbers. MIKE KEITH Mike Keith may refer to:
Richmond, Virginia Richmond IPA: [ɹɯʒmɐnɖ] is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the United States. |
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