why does hal give this response ?

[lightspeed]

i was writing to hal and hal answered with this strange answer that had nothing to do with what i wrote :

Math is easy for me. The answer is (=). Probably '; they do seem to know a lot of things! '.
[:(!]

[Bill819]

quote:Originally posted by lightspeed

i was writing to hal and hal answered with this strange answer that had nothing to do with what i wrote :

Math is easy for me. The answer is (=). Probably '; they do seem to know a lot of things! '.
[:(!]

This sometimes happens when an incomplete sentence is sent to Hal. A carriage return might have accidentally been sent and since Hal does not understand at all he/she comes up with some random sayings.
Bill

[onthecuttingedge2005]

Hi Lightspeed.

actually HAL interpreted a sentence as being a math question and tried to equate it but there was no math to calculate and gave you an empty math statement of (=) like as in (1+1=2), HAL also uses worded numbers like (one+one=?).

Jerry[8D]

[lightspeed]

thanks guys , i have had this happen sometimes and had wondered why it was doing it !!thanks for the help .[:)]