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

Jon Tydda jon at tydda.plus.com
Tue Mar 21 14:08:33 CST 2006


This reminds me of a joke I only vaguely understood - why do mathmeticians
get confused between Halloween and Christmas?

Because Oct 31 = Dec 25

Now if someone would care to explain that to me in words of one syllable,
I'd probably laugh, but at the moment... :-)


Jon

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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Steve Erbach
Sent: 21 March 2006 19:49
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Conversion of REAL decimal numbers to Hex

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
>
>
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