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Re: for the TRULY geeky!

> 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!

worse yet, what kind of character sets do you use?  where hex uses 0-9,
a-f, you could use 0-9, a-v for base 32, but for 64 you could use 0-9,
a-z, A-Z, and you're still 2 characters short!   ;-)

>
> 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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