[lug] keystroke statistics

[Todd Ruskell]

Well, gee, I feel just a little stupid, you'd think I'd be awake by 10:30 :).
It's obviously not binary, because a digit can't have a value greater than
one.   Which begs the question, what qualifies as a keyboard interrupt?  It is
clearly more than just a keystroke, given my simple experiment.

Todd

Todd Ruskell wrote:

> Is that a binary number?  Empirically, it looks like it must be.  For
> example, if I simply do an "up-arrow" and "return" to repeat the previous
> command, the value goes from
>
> ******19
>
> to
>
> ******29
>
> which is consistent with a binary, so you'd have to make sure and work in
> the proper base.
>
> Todd
>
> "Riggs, Robert" wrote:
>
> > I'd go for the ridiculously simple... "grep keyboard /proc/interrupts" at
> > the start and end of the day and subtract.
> >
>
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Todd Ruskell, Ph.D.
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Colorado School of Mines
Golden, CO 80401
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