Steve Erbach
erbachs at gmail.com
Tue Mar 21 16:25:47 CST 2006
Rocky, Ain't it though? I was particularly interested in the "Base Encryption" discussion. The idea of treating a text message as a numeric quantity that can be manipulated arithmetically in Base 62 and then converted to any other base is very intriguing. The only other big number calculator I've seen is Mathematica. This Virtual Calc 2000 sure seems to do the trick if you just want to juggle monster numbers. Mathematica is fabulous stuff, but one has to have the budget for it. Steve Erbach On 3/21/06, Rocky Smolin - Beach Access Software <bchacc at san.rr.com> wrote: > 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 > >