m m2m,m m5m6m,m,m,m,,m,,

 

ASCII Code

64

WRONG!

Descender

32

16

M, = Descender * 126 + (Start 16) + End

Total

Figure 9-6.Dots cannotoverlap;thoseinimmediatelyadjacent“half columns”willbe ignoredwhen thecharacterisprinted.

H Add up each column of dots

Now it’s time to giveour creativeside a break and get down to some basic arithmetic. That’s where the numbers down the left side of the grid come in. Notice that there is a number for each row of dots and that each number is twice the number below it. By making these numbers powers of two we can take any

combination of dots in a vertical column and assign them a unique

-

 

128

 

 

 

 

 

 

O-128

 

-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

64

-

64

 

 

 

0

-

64

-

32

0

-

32

0

-

32

0

-

32

 

16

 

 

 

0

-

16

0

-

16

-

8

 

 

 

O-8

 

O-8

 

 

4

o-4

 

 

 

 

o-4

 

-

2

o-2

 

O-2

 

o-2

 

 

 

 

 

1

O-l

 

~

 

 

O-l

 

 

 

-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

-

Sum

 

 

103

 

 

58

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Figure 9-7.By addingthevaluesofeachdotina column,you’llgeta

uniquedescriptionforany combinationofdots.

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