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[hiromichi]

Will you tell me what is it?

100 buckets of bits on the bus
100 buckets of bits

Take one down, short it to ground
FF buckets of bits on the bus

FF buckets of bits on the bus
FF buckets of bits

Take one down, short it to ground
FE buckets of bits on the bus...

Etc...
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Hiromichi

[CP]

Sounds like a variation on that annoying song sung by drunks in bars or by children on buses:

99 bottles of beer on the wall
99 bottles of beer
take one down and pass it around
98 bottles of beer on the wall

98 bottles of beer on the wall
98 bottles of beer
take one down and pass it around
97 bottles of beer on the wall

And so on down to "no more bottles of beer on the wall."

Now I will have that idiotic tune in my head all day!

Where did you find this brilliant poem?

As for what is meant by a bucket of bits, I have no idea. Anyone else?
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[hiromichi]

CP, What is a relationship between 100 and FF?
I found this song at a newsletter of jokes.
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Hiromichi

[CP]

My guess is that "FF" is used to mean "next lowest number," because the song repeats every number down to zero.
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[hiromichi]

CP, FF means "form feed" in computor language. Does it have something to do with this?
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Hiromichi