Steve Erbach
erbachs at gmail.com
Tue Mar 21 13:48:54 CST 2006
Rocky, ...and, according to Wikipedia, hexavigesimal is the proper term for base 26. Interesting history of hexadecimal in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexadecimal The Bendix corporation used a form of hexadecimal in 1956 using the digits 0-9 and the letters u-z. Proper Latin for hexadecimal would be senidenary to go along with binary, trinary, quaternary, etc. According to WIkipedia, base 36 is called hexatridecimal, sexatrigesimal, and hexatrigesimal. My search is over. And then I found a very interesting utility at: http://www.edepot.com/win95.html It's a universal calculator that, believe it or not, handles numbers with over 2 billion digits! Also handles floating point numbers in any base. AND...it converts floating point numbers from any base to any other base! Hey! Hey! Steve Erbach http://TheTownCrank.blogspot.com 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 > >