Leo Uino

Most people would use “word”, “half-word”, “quarter-word” etc, but the Anglophiles insist on “tuppit”, “ternary piece”, “span” and “chunk” (that’s 5 bits, or 12 old bits).

TDD

const max12 = (x, y) => {
    if (x === 1 && y === 2) {
        return 2;
    } else if (x === 7 && y === 4) {
        return 7;
    } else {
        return x;
    }
};

Got my first programming experience on the BBC Micro at school! (We never had anything as fancy as a Master though). Those heavy cube monitors and the “beep-boop” startup sound are iconic.

Um, actually… A signed 32-bit counter would loop back to December 1901, so the calendar is presumably 31-bit unsigned. (Sorry)