Talk:Hex (Discworld)

The Glooper?
Should it be mentioned as another computer? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.33.64.218 (talk) 05:45, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

Hex an AI?
Given the sentience presented by Hex, shouldn't he be considered both the hardware as well as an AI entity? If he manages to communicate with the Bursar during one of the later's special times AND out-Bursar him, I'd consider that much greater achievement than passing simple Turning test...

Name origin
I have always presumed that the name for Hex was (also) inspired by "HAL", the powerfull computer from Kubrick's "2001 Space Odyssey".

evolution
Need to trace the evolution of hex - from a few ants to "once and future computing".

Phreaking
I always thought that the part about clacks hacking was a reference to Phone phreaking... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Stuart Morrow (talk • contribs) 20:10, 24 December 2006 (UTC).

Hex in "Interesting Times"
Hex is also mentioned in interesting times, specificlly when a buterfly(Hinted to have been influenced by the Lady) places a blob of nectar near a tube which causes a ant to be diverted and change the final calculation, possibly mention?

203.184.17.122 (talk) 01:38, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

He or It?
The used pronoun for Hex switches between "he" and "it". Without a copy of any Hex containing book in English, I cannot judge which one to use. BNutzer (talk) 21:23, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Only computer?
I am sure one of the books mentions another computer. This computer I think is in Bugarup. Science of Discworld, maybe? 89.240.68.40 (talk) 19:55, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Number 6, Treacle Mine Road.
This is a reference to the fact that debuggers display the address at which a run-time exception occurred, except that in our world the address is a given as a string of hex digits or sometimes more usefully as a source file and line number rather than a street and house number. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.18.77.143 (talk) 22:51, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

"Melon melon melon" - what does it stand for?
All the other lines from HEX are variatins of "real" error messages (Out of Cheese -> Out of Memory, for example). But what does "Melon, melon, melon" refer to? --91.13.59.35 (talk) 20:45, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

Broken links
I don't have time at the moment to fix, but of the footnotes, footnote 1 (refering to the blog Adventures in Dubai) is currently shut down for violations of the blogger ToS, and footnote 2 seems to point to the book 'Interesting Times' instead of the book 'Bioinformatics Programming in Python', as it was billed to do. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2620:0:290F:E6:39A8:9760:C7E:D1B3 (talk) 22:19, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

Shamble used by wizards
Is that correct? I don't have the relevant book to hand, but IIRC shambles were only used by witches. I'm sure the only time I've heard it mentioned was in the Tiffany Aching-arc books. Could someone confirm and fix the page if necessary? 92.234.58.169 (talk) 21:06, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

"Hex" = 6 = leg count of an ant
The article says "hex" ("6" in Greek) also denotes the number of legs ants have. Is that Discworld canon, or original research? Equinox (talk) 23:00, 26 October 2015 (UTC)