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 >