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Re: for the TRULY geeky!

From: tweeks <>
Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2001 23:18:53 -0600

Andrew J Cosand wrote:
> 
> > 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!   ;-)

Why?  We all count in sexadecimal every day!  Sexadecimal (base 60) is
what we use for 60 seconds/minute, 60 minutes/hour...  No funky
characters there.. hehe..

Tweeks

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