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

Jon,

Excellent!  Never saw that before.

I've gotten intrigued with that Po-Han Li calculator.  It's got an
interesting method for generating unbreakable coded messages.

Steve Erbach


On 3/21/06, Jon Tydda <jon at tydda.plus.com> wrote:
> 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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> 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