Hexadecimals

May 10, 2005 11 Replies

Understanding hexadecimal's not that hard - I've been using it ever since I was a


At 22:18:21 on 10/05/2005, Sergeant Bilko delighted uk.finance by announcing:

A what?

;-) for those who need it

So Alex doesn't understand hexadecimals then ;)

Just goes to show, there are 10 kinds of people in the world.

Oh, and don't top-post.

tom

Yes. Those who understand binary and those who don't. My 10 year old loves this joke but doens't get the hex one. Ah well more work needed I think. :)

So how old is your son? 10, 10, or 10?

Please answer using the von Neumann construction of Peano numbers to avoid confusion.

tom

Bitstring , from the wonderful person Paul said

You've gotta learn to be unambiguous or you might as well be American. That x0A or 0Ah or #0A, or something similar.

I find that remark extremely decimalist.

Bitstring , from the wonderful person curiosity said

Yep, that's what happens when you count on your fingers.

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