On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 12:38:45AM +1100, Neale Green wrote: > 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 try balanced trinary :) -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it www.eskimo.com/~warlock Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS. -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org please, Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/false domain
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