The Codeless Code: Case 47 The Origin of All
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Painted on the tiles of a lavatory near Java master Bawan’s
office: *
* Some observations by the Editor:
This means that every binary number has both sex
chromosomes, except for numbers of the form (2^n)-1 where
n >= 0.
It also means that bitwise complement (~) is the Sex-Change
Operation.
It would be natural to assign gender to binary integers as
follows: even numbers (ending in 0) are female, and odd
numbers (ending in 1) are male. But speaking personally, I
would find it disconcerting if someone referred to the
anatomical feature that defines my sexuality as my Least
Significant Bit.
