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Re: for the TRULY geeky!

Welll, there are still 8 bit processors in use out there, I started in Octal
through Tandems ( based on HP Minis ), because it's still the addressing
used in the O/S utilities, but Hex is certainly more common nowadays.

Hmmm, that opens a whole 'nother can o' worms, what do we call base 32, or
base 64, numbering systems, took long enough to learn to do Octal or Hex in
my head (binary still gives  me a headache unless it's simple), 32 or 64? No
thanks!

Neale Green

----- Original Message -----
From: "Carol Stein" <>

> Now that's odd... I still do hex-bin-dec conversions on occasion,
> but seldom have had any need for octal conversion. After
> all, hex is useful because it translates the binary, but
> what is octal used for, in this day and age? For each ASCII
> take half the hex, right?
>
> Cheers --
> Carol Stein
> 
>
>
> ---- tweeks <> wrote:
> >  wrote:
> >
> > > ahhhhhhhhhhhh I seeeeeee, yes now. that makes much more
> > sense.
> > > but ya kinda have to be a math geek to get that the first
> > time :)
> >
> > I'm no math geek...
> >
> > Real geeks r/w bin/oct/dec conversions from working with
> > it.
> > posers don't..  ;)
> >
> > Tweeks

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