/sci/ - Science & Math

>Sitting thinking about making a Conway's Game of Life paper weight/brick thing.

>Just started programming Pic mcu's and only know assembly

>Know I can't implement a simple array like in higher level languages because I'm using assembly

>Start thinking about a memory address scheme

>Pic series I'm using has 8-bit shift registers giving 256 combinations which works out to a 16 by 16 grid

>Half asleep and confuse myself about how I can take a bit number and use it for location and grid point state

>realize I'm a retard and that is 256 locations, which means i need 256 bits or 32 bytes

>laugh at my stupidity and start thinking there is not enough information in one byte to describe both location and state.

>shit a brick when I think about the Heisenberg uncertainty principle and realize that state and location can't be measured at the same time because there isn't enough information space to describe both


Now I have an erection