Base eight and base sixteen make great shorthand for binary. Useful for computer programming and granting permissions on UNIX machines. Also, the role-playing game Taveller could express a character or starship as a hexidecimal number for reasons I'll never really understand.
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Gudanov - Dec 13, 2005 6:29:02 am PST #9572 of 10003
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DebetEsse - Dec 13, 2005 6:29:21 am PST #9573 of 10003
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Teppy, exactly.
Hil R. - Dec 13, 2005 6:30:43 am PST #9574 of 10003
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Okay, so, in binary, the number 111 means that there is one 4, one 2, and one 1, so it would equal 7?
Yep!
Emily - Dec 13, 2005 6:32:16 am PST #9575 of 10003
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Okay, so, in binary, the number 111 means that there is one 4, one 2, and one 1, so it would equal 7?
Woo!
Base eight and base sixteen make great shorthand for binary.
Cause, man, those binary numbers get LONG.
Steph L. - Dec 13, 2005 6:33:04 am PST #9576 of 10003
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
So if 111 = 7, each column except the furthest right is a value of 2? Like, furthest right is 1s, and then moving left is 2s, 4s, 8s, and then....? Does the value of the rows double as you progress left? Would 16s be next, and then 32s?
Would 111111 = 63?
Computers don't use the ten digits of the decimal system for counting and arithmetic. Their CPU and memory are made up of millions of tiny switches that can be either ON or OFF. Two digits, 0 and 1, can be used to stand for the two states of ON and OFF. So we can see that computers could work with a number system based on two digits.
Okay! See, THIS makes sense!
Hil R. - Dec 13, 2005 6:34:03 am PST #9577 of 10003
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
So if 111 = 7, each column except the furthest right is a value of 2? Like, furthest right is 1s, and then moving left is 2s, 4s, 8s, and then....? Does the value of the rows double as you progress left? Would 16s be next, and then 32s?
Exactly.
Steph L. - Dec 13, 2005 6:34:38 am PST #9578 of 10003
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
So if 111 = 7, each column except the furthest right is a value of 2? Like, furthest right is 1s, and then moving left is 2s, 4s, 8s, and then....? Does the value of the rows double as you progress left? Would 16s be next, and then 32s?
Exactly.
So, 111111 = 63?
Hil R. - Dec 13, 2005 6:35:34 am PST #9579 of 10003
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
So, 111111 = 63?
Yep.
Steph L. - Dec 13, 2005 6:36:10 am PST #9580 of 10003
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
So, 111111 = 63?
Yep.
Weird. But kind of elegant, too.
flea - Dec 13, 2005 6:36:33 am PST #9581 of 10003
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