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 >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > -- Rocky Smolin Beach Access Software 858-259-4334 www.e-z-mrp.com