9 Feb
2017
9 Feb
'17
12:12 p.m.
On 8 Feb 2017 17:50 -0500, from ron(a)ronnatalie.com (Ron Natalie):
Amusingly in the UNIVAC FIELDDATA character set. The
@ had the value zero
(and was called the master space).
That wouldn't have anything to do with how ^@ is a somewhat common
representation of 000, would it? (Yes, using octal on purpose.) I've
always kind of wondered where that notation came from.
That ^A through ^Z were representations of 001 through 032 makes more
sense.
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