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

Oct(al) 31 = Dec(imal) 25

just an octal to decimal conversion

Don G.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jon Tydda" <jon at tydda.plus.com>
To: "'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'"
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Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 12:08 PM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Conversion of REAL decimal numbers to Hex


> 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
> >
> >
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