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 -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [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 > > _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- This email has been verified as Virus free Virus Protection and more available at http://www.plus.net