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ant-colony (the sum in this case is far greater than the parts) tended by Ponder Stibbons and a group of like-minded, spotty, if-only-we-had-anoraks undergraduates. As Stibbons states it, operating Hex is largely intuitive, although you have to spend a lot of time learning it first. Hex can discworld hex error messages be cranky, recalcitrant, demand more cheese, occasionally be of use, and exhibit disturbing signs of
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sentience. Apart from the odd banana, not too much difference from here. Hex makes a major appearance in Interesting Times, Hogfather and The Science ant hill facts of Discworld, where it helped facilitate the Roundworld project, and has also been used at other times to do complicated calculations for how exactly a spell is to be performed, or to control the operations of complicated magical instruments. discworld novels Hex is started by initialising the GBL (pulling the Great Big Lever), and is basically a thinking-engine. Some people may think that Hex is alive, but Ponder Stibbons soothes his mind on that subject, telling himself that Hex "only thinks that he is alive". Hex started its existence as a very large calculator, using different movements of ants to solve simple math equations, but Hex eventually changed to something much more. Hex now seems to have a life of
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its own, changing, removing and even adding new parts to itself all the time. It now has an Anthill Inside sticker, a beehive in the next room (for memory storage), a screensaver (an aquarium on a spring), a beach-ball-like thing that goes "parp" every fourteen minutes. Hex has a large number of logic states, in addition to and, or, and their combinations and variants, Hex can use maybe, perhaps, suppose, and why, allowing it to think the unthinkable quite easily, such as expanding its capacity to understand the creation of Roundworld on the basis that one day it would be able to. Hex is even beginning to ask about electricity. Hex is able to cast a huge amount of spells in a very small amount of time (similar to early computers that were used to do multiple calculations in a short space of time), thus reducing the need for humans to do so (a source of disgruntlement to the Faculty) and garnering results that it would take a team of research wizards weeks, months or even years to get. For instance, Hex casts the spells required to create Roundworld in less than a minute, when the Dean predicted it would take months. Hex was unfortunately sent daft by a conversation with the Bursar during Hogfather. This was cured soon after by Mustrum Ridcully with the use of dried frog pills (Ridcully wrote, hurriedly, "L-O-T-S-O-F-D-R-Y-D-F-R-O
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page Recent changes Hex 570pages on this wiki Add New Page Edit Classic editor History Add New Page Talk3 Hex is an elaborate, Heath Robinson/Rube Goldberg-esque, magic-powered computer housed at Unseen University (UU) in the city http://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Hex of Ankh-Morpork, in author Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. Hex is a computer unlike any other the Disc has ever seen (which is not particularly hard since all other 'computers' on the Disc consist of druidic stone circles). Hex runs and evolves under the watchful eyes of wizard Ponder Stibbons, who becomes the de-facto IT manager at UU because he's the only one who understands what he's talking about. Contents[show] EvolutionEdit Hex http://discworld.wikia.com/wiki/Hex has its origins in a device that briefly appeared in Soul Music, created by Ponder Stibbons and some student Wizards in the High Energy Magic building. In this form it was simply a complex network of glass tubes, containing ants. The wizards could then use punch cards to control which tubes the ants could crawl through, enabling it to perform simple mathematical functions. By the time of the novel, Interesting Times, Hex had become a lot more complex, and was constantly reinventing itself. Part of it is now clockwork, which interfaces with the ant-farm via a paternoster the ants can ride on that turns a significant cogwheel. Its main purposes were to analyse spells, to see if there were simpler "meta-spells" underlying them, and to help Stibbons with his study of "invisible writings", by running the spells used to bring the writings into existence (these spells must be cast rapidly, and each one can only be used once before the universe notices they shouldn't work). In other words, data compression and information retrieval. In Hogfather Hex contained several things that nobody remembered installing, and was asking about electricity. It was at around this time that the wizards become concerned that it may be trying to become something they didn't understand. By The Scien
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