Rocky Smolin - Beach Access Software
bchacc at san.rr.com
Tue Mar 21 12:07:55 CST 2006
When I was a teener and just staring out in computers, I heard form a teacher that hexadecimal should really be called sexadecimal, but since IBM was the arbiter of computer nomenclature at the time, and was (and still is, I guess) a pretty strait laced company, they couldn't handle sexadecimal and so we had hex dumps. Instead of sex dumps. Rocky Steve Erbach wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > -- Rocky Smolin Beach Access Software 858-259-4334 www.e-z-mrp.com