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

Rocky Smolin - Beach Access Software bchacc at san.rr.com
Tue Mar 21 16:15:24 CST 2006


The calculator is too cool!

Rocky


Steve Erbach wrote:
> 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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