[KwartzLab] Hexadecimal

[Jeff Schmidt]

It's true; my kids also had a riot. I suppose it is mostly for them... *sigh*

- Jeff

On Dec 4, 2012, at 9:02 AM, Mark Pitcher <markpitcher at gmail.com> wrote:

> I brought my kids there last year and it was interesting to watch them playing with the exact same exhibits that I used to play with.
> 
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> On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Jeff Schmidt <digitalfalcon at rogers.com> wrote:
>> I was there last year, and was torn between feeling nostalgic about the old exhibits I remembered from 15 years ago, and disappointed that so little had changed...
>> 
>> - Jeff
>> 
>> On Dec 4, 2012, at 1:02 AM, Karl Williams <karlw at thinkbotics.com> wrote:
>> 
>> > I remember that talking machine at the science center! You could control the speed and pitch of each syllable. I was there a few years ago and was happy to see that they still had some of those old exhibits.
>> >
>> > On 12/4/2012 12:00 AM, Michael Dunn wrote:
>> >>   At 11:35 PM -0500 12/3/12, Karl Williams wrote:
>> >>> My favorite hex number is C0FFEE.
>> >>
>> >> Do you remember the "COFFEE" talking machine at the Science Centre? :-)
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>> Sometime when I'm bored I'll pick any base, other than ten, and do mind calculations. Base-12 (Duodecimal) is fun.
>> >>
>> >> 6x9=42 (base 13)
>> >>
>> >> Why does one of my calcs have "Pental"!??!!!??? (base 5)
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>> >>
>> >>>> Doc's offhand comment about IBM and hexadecimal notation piqued my curiosity.
>> >>
>> >> Why does IBM use "slashed" 0 for O?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> md
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