Steve Erbach
erbachs at gmail.com
Tue Mar 21 11:42:06 CST 2006
Dear Group, There are about a jillion decimal to hex converters on the web. But what I'm looking for is a converter that will handle decimal numbers with decimals. That is, convert 1.0625 (decimal) to 1.1 (hexadecimal). I can write one that recursively takes the remainder from a division by higher and higher powers of 16 and dividing the remainder the the next higher power of sixteen, etc. Just wondered if any of you had seen such a utility. For bonus points: base 10 is decimal, base 16 is hexadecimal, base 20 is vigesimal...what are base 26 and base 36 called in this nomenclature? I'd guess that base 26 would be hexavigesimal, but I have no clue what base 36 would be. I would just find it useful to have a name to attach to base 36 when I need a nice compact numbering system that uses all 10 numeric digits plus all 26 letters of the alphabet. -- Regards, Steve Erbach Scientific Marketing Neenah, WI www.swerbach.com Security Page: www.swerbach.com/security