Tuesday, November 16, 2010

The Longest Calculator Message Ever

I WILL NOW TRY
TO WRITE THE
LONGEST CALCU-
LATOR MESSAGE
EVER.  THIS IS
PROBABLY – NO,
MOST LIKELY – A
FEAT THAT HAS
BEEN ATTEMPTED
BEFORE.  BUT THE
PREVIOUS LONGEST
HAVE MORE THAN
LIKELY BEEN NO
MORE THAN NON-
SENSE.  THIS ONE
IS SAYING SOME-
THING.  THE MES-
SAGE IS CLEAR.
OR MAYBE IT ISNT
.  PERHAPS YOU,
THE MESSSAGE REA-
DER, NEED SOME
CLARIFICATION.
NO MATTER.  I
WOULD HAVE SAID
IT ANYWAY.  THE
MESSAGE IS THAT
A TEXTS LENGTH
HAS NOTHING TO
DO WITH ITS REL-
EVANCE.  WHY DID
I NOT JUST SAY
THAT IN THE FIRS
T PLACE, YOU
ASK?  BECAUSE
THIS IS MEANT TO
BE LONG.  THIS
IS MEANT TO BE
THE LONGEST
CALCULATOR MES-
SAGE EVER!  SO
I HAVE COMPILED
LETTERS INTO
WORDS, AND WORDS
INTO SENTENCES.
AND I HAVE ALSO
COMPILED THESE
SENTENCES INTO
A MESSAGE THAT
CAN ONLY BE READ
BY PRESSING THE
DOWN ARROW MANY,
MANY, MANY, MANY
TIMES.  THIS IS
A POINTLESS TIME
WASTER STARTED
AFTER A MATH
TEST.
I HAVE WRITTEN
THINGS LONGER.
BUT THEY HAVE
BEEN IN VARIAT,
NOT NORMAL TYPE.
THIS MESSAGE IS
LENGTHY, BUT
“SAYS” NOTHING.
THERE IS NOTHING
OF IMPORTANCE
HERE.
I AM STARTING TO
SKIP AROUND, TO
CREATE NEW PARA-
GRAPHS TO MATCH
MY THOUGHTS.  I
AN STILL ON TOP-
IC, HOWEVER, UN-
LIKE MOST MES-
SAGES THAT HAVE
MADE IT TO THIS
LENGTH.
THIS MESSAGE IS
VERY LONG.  THERE
IS NOT MUCH MORE
I CAN SAY ON THE
TOPIC.  SO I
WILL END THIS
MESSAGE NOW, AND
LEAVE IT HERE,
ON THIS CALCULA-
TOR, UNTIL IT
HAS BEEN READ BY
OTHERS.

            END

P.S. “until it has been read by others” seems to translate to “until we need to use it.”  I’m bummed that I had to clear my message, but it had to be eventually.
P.P.S. Yes, I did type this all out on my graphing calculator.  To preserve the format, each line is only sixteen characters long and it is in all caps with only the punctuation my calculator can use.  This has come from a calculator to graph paper to a Word document to here.  I have written it out completely 3 times.
P.P.P.S. "In variat" means like this:

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXX              XXXX
XXX    XXXXXX   XXX
XXX    XXXXXX   XXX
XXX                  XXX
XXX    XXXXXX   XXX
XXX    XXXXXX   XXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Each letter is perfectly visible, as my screen is 8 characters high.

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