[KwartzLab] Hexadecimal

[Karl Williams]

My favorite hex number is C0FFEE.
Sometime when I'm bored I'll pick any base, other than ten, and do mind 
calculations. Base-12 (Duodecimal) is fun.


On 12/3/2012 8:16 PM, Bob DeGregory wrote:
> Doc's offhand comment about IBM and hexadecimal notation piqued 
> my curiosity. Having done my CS degree when dinosaurs roamed the 
> earth, and IBM ruled the dinosaurs, I nonetheless believe that IBM's 
> relationship to hex is only slightly more central than Al Gore's 
> relationship to the internet.
>
> Of course I turned to Wikipedia to see how much I might be missing.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexadecimal
>
> Lots of interesting esoterica like finger-counting system that works 
> up to to 1K-1 attributed to Arthur C.Clarkeand even some droll 
> hexadecimal humor. Some useful stuff that never made it into CS 
> curriculum but perhaps should have as well.
>
> Article is definitely worth a read through.
>
>
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