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

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
>>
>>
>>    
>>
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