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Re: for the TRULY geeky!

From: Jim Richardson <>
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 16:17:05 -0800

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 :)

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Jim Richardson
	Anarchist, pagan and proud of it
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	Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.

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