Category: Computation

Two (Number)
by Hla Min

Updated : Dec 2025

Bicameral Parliament ပါလီမန်
- US Congress – Senate & House of Representatives
- UK — House of Lords & House of Common
- Upper House & Lower House
Extremes to be avoided ရှောင်ရန် အစွန်းနှစ်သွယ်

From ဓမ္မစကြာ
- Sensual pleasures
- Self mortification
Meditation
- Samatha သမထ — Concentration meditation
- Vipassana ဝိပဿနာ — Insight meditation
Nama-rupa

နာမ ရူပ
- Nama — Mental formations & characteristics
- Rupa — Physical characteristics
Number
- Hindu-Arabic numeral — 2
- Roman numeral — II
- နှစ် (Two in Burmese)
- ဒုတိယ (Second)
- Duece, Duo, Duet, Duel, Pair
Reality

သစ္စာ
- Sammutti sacca — Pannatti — Apparent reality သမုတိသစ္စာ
- Paramattha sacca — Paramattha — Ultimate reality ပရမတ္ထသစ္စာ
Rowing — Coxless Pairs

ပဲ့နင်းမဲ့ နှစ်တက်လှော်
- Stroke & Bow
- ARAE Regatta Trophy — Venables Bowl
Two tier architecture
- Front end & Back end
- Client & Server
Two valued logic
- Constants — True & False
- Truth table — 4 entries : FF, FT, TF, TT
- Logic Functions — 16
Worldly and beyond
- Loki လောကီ — Mundane (Worldly)
- Lokotra လောကုတ္တရာ — Supramundane (Beyond world)
Chief Disciples

အဂ္ဂသာဝက
- Sariputtra ရှင်သာရိပုတ္တရာ
- Mogallana ရှင်မဟာမောဂ္ဂလန်
General

အထွေထွေ
- Ascent & Descent
- Bicycle : cycle with two wheels
- Binary number system : 0, 1
- Bifocal : Having two foci
- Back court & Front court — Basketball
- Closed & Open — Case; Interval
- Dilemma
- Diode : Cathode & Anode
- Dual & Primal
- Duality — Principle (e.g Geometry, Logic, Linear Programming)
- February — 2nd month in the Gregorian Calendar
- East & West; Eastern & Western
- First half & Second half
- First term & Second term
- Gemini : Heavenly Twins — Castor & Pollux
- Gemini project : Two astronauts
- High & Low
- It takes Two to Tango
- North & South
- President & Vice President
- Prolog & Epilog
- Sports : Men’s Doubles, Women’s Doubles, Mixed Doubles
- Tea for Two — Song
- TF (True or False) Quiz
- Two heads are better than one — Proverb
- Two Phase Commit — Database
- Up & Down
December 12, 2025
Four (Number)
by Hla Min

Updated : Dec 2025

Numeral
- Hindu-Arablic numeral : 4
- Roman numeral : IV
- လေး (Four in Burmese)
- စတုတ္ထ (Fourth in Burmese)
Recent Buddhas မြတ်စွာဘုရား
- Kakusandha ကကုသန်
- Konagamana ဂေါဏဂုံ
- Kassapa ကဿပ
- Gautama ဂေါတမ
Sacca / Noble Truth သစ္စာ
- Dukkha ဒုက္ခ
  Unsatisfactoriness / Misery / Suffering
- Samudiya သမုဒယ
  Cause of suffering
- Nirodha နိရောဓ
  Cessation of suffering
- Magga မဂ္ဂ
  The Path / The Middle Way
Foundation of Mindfulness သတိဇပဌာန်
- Contemplation of the kaya / body ကာယာနုပဿနာ
- Contemplation of the vedana / feeling ဝေဒနာနုပဿနာ
- Contemplation of the citta / mind စိတ္တာနုပဿနာ
- Contemplation of the dhamma ဓမ္မာနုပဿနာ/ general objects — not covered by the above three
Brahma Vihara Practice

ဗြဟ္မာစိုရ်တရား
- Metta မေတ္တာ
  Loving kindness / Unbounded love
- Karuna ကရုဏာ
  Compassion
- Mudita မုဒိတာ
  Sympathetic joy / Altruistic joy
- Uppekkha ဥပေက္ခာ
  Equanimity
Guardian deities

လောကပါလ
- Dhatarattha (East) ဓတ္တရဌ
- Virulhaka (South) ဝိရူဠက
- Virupkkha (West) ဝိရူပက္ခ
- Kuvera (North) ကုဝေရ
Mahabhuta

မဟာဘုတ်
- Patthavi ပထဝီ
  Earth element
- Tejo တေဇော
  Fire element
- Apo အာပေါ
  Water or liquid element
- Vayo ဝါယော
  Air or wind element
Undergraduate Classes

ဘွဲ့ကြို
- Freshman
- Sophomore
- Junior
- Senior
Baseball
- First base
- Second base
- Third base
- Home plate
Miscellaneous

အထွေထွေ
- Four sided figures စတုဂံ
  Rectangle, Square, Parallelogram, Parallepiped, Rhombus
- Games အားကစားပြိုင်ပွဲ
  Four quarters (e.g. Football, Basketball)
- Rowing လှေလှော်
  Coxless fours, Coxed fours, Quadruple sculls
Coxed Fours
- April ဧပြီလ 4th month of the Gregorian Calendar
Posts
- Computation
- Digital
- Number Systems
- Numerals
December 8, 2025
One (Number)
by Hla Min

Updated : Dec 2025

Numeral
- Hindu-Arabic numeral : 1
- Roman numeral : I
- တစ် (One)
- ပထမ (First)
Miscellaneous
- Ace — ဖဲချပ်။ လေသူရဲ
- First day of the month — လ အစ
- January ဇန္နဝါရီ လ— 1st month of Gregorian Calendar
- March မတ် လ — 1st month of old Roman Calendar
- Monocle — မျက်မှန်
- Monograph — စာတမ်း
- Monopoly — စျေးကွက် ကို တဦးထည်းကြီးစိုး။ Board Game ကစားနည်း
- Monarchy — ထီးနန်း
- Monotheism — Belief in one god or deity
- Single — တဦီးချင်း။ အိမ်ထောင်မရှိ
- Singleton — Bridge ဖဲကစားနည်း မှာ Suit တခု မှာ Card တချပ် ဘဲရှိ။
- Unique, Uniqueness
- Universe — စကြာဝဠာ
- Universal
- Unicycle — စက်ဘီး
- Union — ပြည်ထောင်စု (စသဖြင့်)
- Unit — အတိုင်းအတာ
- Unity — စည်းလုံးမှု
Poem
December 6, 2025
Five (Number)
by Hla Min

Updated : Dec 2025

Numeral
- Hindu-Arabic numeral : 5
- Roman numeral : V
- ငါး (Five)
- ပဥ္စမ (Fifth)
First group of disciples

ပဥ္စဝဂ္ဂီ
- Kondanna ကောဏ္ဍည
- Baddhiya ဘဒ္ဒိယ
- Vappa ဝပ္ပ
- Mahanama မဟာနာမ်
- Asajji အဿဇိ
Five Khandas / ခန္ဓာ Aggregates
- Rupakkhandha : Material phenomena ရူပက္ခန္ဓာ
- Vedanakkhanda : Feeling ဝေဒနက္ခန္ဓာ
- Sannakkhanda : Perceptionသညာနက္ခန္ဓာ
- Sankharakkhnada : Formations သင်္ခါရက္ခန္ဓာ
- Vinnanakkhandha : Consciousness ဝေညာနက္ခန္ဓာ
Five Precepts

ငါးပါးသီလ

Abstain from
- Killing
- Stealing
- Sexual misconduct
- Lies
- Intoxicants (liquor, “drugs”, …)
Five Senses

အာရုံငါးပါး
- Hearing
- Sight
- Smell
- Taste
- Touch
Five Nikaya / Collection

နိကယ် ငါးရပ်
- Digha Nikaya : “long collection”
- Majjhima Nikaya : “middle-length collection”
- Samyutta Nikaya : “grouped collection” — “thematically linked discourses”
- Anguttara Nikaya : the “further-factored collection” — discourses grouped by content enumerations
- Khuddaka Nikaya : the “collection of little texts”
Miscellaneous
- Five Jhana စျာန် ငါးပါး
- Five fingers on each hand လက်ချောင်း ငါးချောင်း
- Five toes on each foot ခြေချောင်း ငါးချောင်း
- Pentagon five sided polygonပဥ္စဂံ
- May မေ လ 5th month of the Gregorian Calendar
December 4, 2025
Three (Number)
by Hla Min

Updated : Dec 2025

Numeral
- Hindu-Arabic numeral : 3
- Roman numeral : III
- သုံး (Three in Burmese)
- တတိယ (Third in Burmese)
Triple Gems

ရတနာ သုံးပါး
- Buddha ဗုဒ္ဓ The Blessed One, the Worthy One, the Fully Enlightened One
- Dhamma ဓမ္မ Teachings of the Buddha
- Sangha သံဃာ Monastic Order of the Buddha
Tipitaka တိပိဋက
- Vinaya ဝိနည်း Monastic rules of conduct
- Sutta သုတ္တန် Discourses
- Abhidhamma အဘိဓမ္မာ Ultimate Reality
Trinity
- Father
- Son
- Holy Spirit
Three valued logic
- True
- False
- Don’t know
Musical note
- Ascent / Rise
- Sustain
- Descent / Decay
Apollo Modules
- Command Module
- Lunar Module
- Service Module
Apollo 11
- Neil Armstrong : Mission Commander
- Michael Collins : Command Module Pilot
- Buzz Aldrin : Lunar Module Pilot
Men on the Moon

Positive Color Model / RGB
- Red
- Green
- Blue
Traffic Light
- Red
- Amber
- Green
Speech / Writing
- Introduction
- Body
- Conclusion
Education
- Primary
- Secondary
- Tertiary
Khit San Sarpay ခေတ်စမ်းစာပေ
- သိပ္ပံမောင်ဝ ICS U Sein Tin
- ဇော်ဂျီ (ဦးသိန်းဟန် U Thein Han)
- မင်းသုဝဏ် (ဦးဝန် U Wun)
Early Schools in Burma
- English School
- Vernacular School
- Anglo-Vernacular School
Miscellaneous
- Three Hindu Deities
- Triangle : Three-sided figure
- Triangulation : Surveying technique
- Three Seasons in Myanmar : Hot, Rainy, Cold
- Tricycle : Cycle with three wheels
- Tripod : Camera stand with three legs
- Trio : Group of three (e.g Kingston Trio)
- Trilogy : e.g Three books about WWII by Cornelius Ryan
- Trine : e.g Sign in Palmistry
- Trigonometry : Branch of Mathematics
- Triple Jump : Hop, step & jump
- Transistor : Base, Emitter, Collector
- March : Third month in the Gregorian Calendar
December 2, 2025
Digit
by Hla Min

Updated : Oct 2025

Term
- A digit may stand for a finger.
  The use of ten fingers for counting may have given rise to the Decimal Number System.
- A digit may stand for a symbol of a Number System.
Base
- A Number System has a Base (or Radix). The Base specifies the number of digits used in the system.
- Decimal Number System (Base 10) uses ten digits : 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.
- Binary Number System (Base 2) uses two digits : 0 and 1.
- Octal Number System (Base 8) uses eight digits : 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
- Hexadecimal Number System (Base 16) uses sixteen digits :
  0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, F.
Computing
- Some early computers and calculators use Base 10.
- Most computers use Base 2 internally. Since binary numbers are long, they are expressed externally using Octal and Hexadecimal.
- Computers and programs support easy Conversion between the Number Systems.
Digital
- Digital displays (read outs) are common.
- There are converters from digital to analog (and vice versa).
- Digital displays (read outs) are common.
October 20, 2025
Number — Nine
By Hla Min

Updated : Aug 2025

Numeral
- Hindu-Arabic numeral : 9
- Roman numeral : IX
Quality
- Nine Qualities of the Buddha
- Nine Qualities of the Sangha
Month
- September
  9th month of Gregorian Calendar
- November
  9th month of the old Roman Calendar
Computing
- Casting out the Nines
Posts
- Computation
- Numbers
- Number Systems
August 30, 2025
Demise — Top Company
by Hla Min

Updated : Aug 2025

SGI
- Silicon Graphics Incorporated (SGI) sold $10,000+ work stations.
- Its customers include the movie companies doing computer animation.
- With the advent of powerful graphic chips and PCs which offer graphics and animations at reasonable prices, SGI folded.
SGI Buildings
- Computer History Museum (CHM) bought one of the SGI buildings on Shoreline Boulevard, Mountain View.
- Google bought most of the remaining SGI buildings and created its GooglePlex.
Caution
- A top company may be toppled by competitors and innovators.
Posts
- Competition
- Innovation
- Obsolescence
- Technology
August 30, 2025
Threes
by Hla Min

Updated : Aug 2025

Three RIT Sayas

U Aung Myint, U Moe Aung, U Kyaw Sein (GBNF)

U Moe Aung

U Moe Aung (EE63)
- Pen name : Tekkatho Moe War
- Distinguished writer, poet, editor, publisher, zat saya, vocalist …
- Chair of SPZP-2002 and SPZP-2010 in Singapore
- Chief Editor and Publisher of Commemorative Swel Daw Yeik Sar Saungs for SPZP-2002, SPZP-2007 and SPZP-2010.
- Chief Editor and Publisher of Commemorative Swel Daw Yeik Sar Magazine for Shwe YaDu (in 2014) and SPZP-2016.
- Editor of RUESU Annual Magazine.
- Chief Editor of RIT Annual Magazines and Hlyat Sit Sar Saung.
- Compiled and published selected poems and articles.
- Johnian.
- Worked in Singapore, but moved back to Myanmar after retirement.
U Kyaw Sein

U Kyaw Sein (M65, GBNF)
- Expertise : Mechanical Drawing, AutoCAD, Tinkering with devices
- Posted and moderated several FaceBook pages.
- Had minor health problems (e.g. vision)
- Johnian
- Passed away in Singapore
U Aung Myint (M69)
- Retired from Singapore Poly
- Spend most time in Auckland, New Zealand
- Hobbies : Painting, Posting motivational messages
Three RIT Sayamas

Daw Khin Swe Aye, Daw Tin Tin Myint, Daw Tin May Soe

Daw Tin May Soe (ChE70)
- Siblings / Older brothers
  U Myint Soe (C, GBNF) and U Mya Soe (C, GBNF)
Daw Khin Swe Aye (Winnie, ChE70)
- Spouse : U Ohn Khine (M70)
- Younger sister of U Win Maung (George Tun, EE69er)
- Cousin : Dr. Min Lwin (Maurice Hla Kyi)
Daw Tin Tin Myint (Emma, ChE70)
- Minthamee
- Co-founder of Dana Sri Lanka (DSL)
- Co-founder of Triple Gems Publication
- Patron and Host of Pon Chan Chan Group in Singapore
- Spouse : U Yu Swan (Don Min)
Three 69ers

U Shwe (EP69)
- Treasurer for both the 69er HCF (Health Care Fund)
- Joint Treasurer, EE69er HCF
U Tin Htut (Harry, M69)
- Pen name : Mon Yu
- Hobbies : Music, Tai Chi, Writing
U Thein Swe (EP69, GBNF)
- 3rd Year Lu Ye Chun at RIT
- Organizer for the EE69er gatherings
- Knows names and nicknames of classmates
August 21, 2025
Number — Eight
by Hla Min

Updated : Aug 2025

Engineering Eights

Numerals
- HIndu-Arabic numeral : 8
- Roman Numeral : VIII
Magggingas
- Samma dithi / Right view
- Samma sankappa / Right thoughts
- Samma vaca Right speech
- Samma kamanta / Right action
- Samma ajiva / Right livelihood
- Samma vayamo / Right effort
- Samma sati / Right mindfulness
- Samma samadhi / Right concentration
Precepts for Ajivatthamaka sila

Abstain from
- killing living beings
- taking what is not freely given
- committing sexual misconduct
- telling lies
- slandering or divisive speech
- harsh speech
- frivolous talk or talking nonsense
- wrong livelihood
Uposatha Precepts

Abstain from
- killing living beings
- taking what is not freely given
- ignoble conduct (sexual intercourse)
- telling lies
- intoxicating drinks and drugs that cause heedlessness
- eating after mid-day (until next dawn)
  (a) dancing, singing, playing music, witnessing shows or entertainment
  (b) wearing flowers, using perfumes, beautifying with cosmetics
- using high and luxurious seas and beds
Importune Moments
- Being born in hell
- Being born in the animal realm
- Being born in the Peta realm (of ghosts or ever-hungry beings) and in the Asura realm (of demons)
- Being born as a long-lived Brahma in the realms of No-Perception (Asannasatta) and No-Form (Arupaloka)
- Being born as a person in a remote borderland inaccessible to monks, nuns, and lay people
- Being born as a person with wrong views
- Being born as a man with no intelligence to understand the Dhamma
- Being born as a man with intelligence but when the Buddha has not arisen
Miscellaneous
- Octave
  Eight notes apart
- August
  Eighth month in the Gregorian Calendar
- October
  Eighth month in the Old Roman Calendar
- President’s Challenge Cup (RUBC)
  Inter-club Coxed Eights
- Gallon
  Eight pints
- Mile
  Eight furlongs
- Sabbath includes 8th Waxing day and 8th Waning day
August 17, 2025