re tiff philosophical significance of in article hc mentor cc purdue edu ab nova cc purdue edu allen b writes in article apr galki toppoint de ulrich galki toppoint de writes according to the tiff specification the tiff version number bytes has been chosen for its deep philosophical significance last week i read the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy is this actually how they picked the number i m sure it is and i am not amused every time i read that part of the tiff spec it infuriates me and i m none too happy about the complexity of the spec anyway because i think their arbitrary but carefully chosen number is neither additionally i find their choice of bytes to begin a file with meaningless of themselves why not just use the letters tiff and no i don t think they should have bothered to support both word orders either and i ve found that many tiff readers actually don t ab why so up tight for that matter tiff is out now so why not gripe about its problems also if its so important to you volunteer to help define or critique the spec finally a little numerology is backwards and tiff is a bit image format chris christopher p tully cptully med unc edu univ of north carolina chapel hill cb chapel hill nc i get paid for my opinions but that doesn t mean that unc or anybody else agrees with them
