MartyConnelly
martyconnelly at shaw.ca
Tue Mar 21 15:14:32 CST 2006
If &O31 = CDec(25) Then Debug.Print "Merry Christmas ... err Halloween or something" Jon Tydda 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 > >-----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 > >_______________________________________________ >dba-Tech mailing list >dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech >Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > > -- Marty Connelly Victoria, B.C. Canada