[dba-Tech] Conversion of REAL decimal numbers to Hex

Steve Erbach erbachs at gmail.com
Tue Mar 21 12:59:57 CST 2006


Rocky,

Yeah, I've been down in the sex dumps before...

Yes, hexadecimal combines Greek and Latin forms.  I believe that
vigesimal is Latin, and I'm just guessing at hexavigesimal.

Steve Erbach


On 3/21/06, Rocky Smolin - Beach Access Software <bchacc at san.rr.com> wrote:
> 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
>



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