So, 111111 = 63?
Yep.
Weird. But kind of elegant, too.
Jayne (Husband): Oh, I think you might wanna reconsider that last part. See, I married me a powerful ugly creature. Mal (Wife): How can you say that? How can you shame me in front of new people? Jayne (Husband): If I could make you purtier, I would. Mal (Wife): You are not the man I met a year ago.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Spike's Bitches 27: I'm Embarrassed for Our Kind.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Steph L. - Dec 13, 2005 6:36:10 am PST #9580 of 10003
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
flea - Dec 13, 2005 6:36:33 am PST #9581 of 10003
information libertarian
By George, I think she's got it!
§ ita § - Dec 13, 2005 6:36:57 am PST #9582 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
They do double as you move along, and they double because it's base two, and each column is raised to the power of the base.
So the decimal columns are one, ten, a hundred, etc. The octal columns are one, eight, sixty four, etc...
Deena - Dec 13, 2005 6:37:25 am PST #9583 of 10003
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
Dude. Tep, you're mathier than I am. I didn't get it until you explained it, though the egg crates and I were getting there.
vw bug - Dec 13, 2005 6:38:07 am PST #9584 of 10003
Mostly lurking...
YAY! I figured out my lab report! I'm not sure it's right, but at least I got the damn program to work!
Hil R. - Dec 13, 2005 6:39:56 am PST #9585 of 10003
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Weird. But kind of elegant, too.
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Ginger - Dec 13, 2005 6:43:22 am PST #9586 of 10003
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
What is the purpose of base eight?
I will be useful if we ever have to do math with cartoon characters or eight-fingered aliens.
Connie Neil - Dec 13, 2005 6:44:38 am PST #9587 of 10003
brillig
There's a house on a bus route in Salt Lake City that I call the binary house. Its number is 10101.
Emily - Dec 13, 2005 6:44:51 am PST #9588 of 10003
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Whoo! You're good, Steph. (Although, my mathiness wishes point out, 1 is in fact a power of two, because anything raised to the 0 power is 1. But I know what you mean.)
Gudanov - Dec 13, 2005 6:45:56 am PST #9589 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
Thanks for the Christmas calendar Ginger!