[KwartzLab] Hexadecimal

[Jonathan Lamothe]

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Of course!  How could anyone get along without those?

On 12-12-04 12:05 PM, Ben Brown wrote:
> But they did have the Windows and Context Menu keys.
> 
> ;)
> 
> On 12/4/2012 11:58 AM, Jonathan Lamothe wrote:
>> Fun fact: early typewriters didn't have a 0 or a 1.  You had to
>> use a capital o or a lower case L.
>> 
>> On 12-12-04 11:56 AM, Ed Blanchard wrote:
>>> Don't even get me started on 1 and l .... (one and ell).
>> 
>>> EdB
>> 
>>> On 12/4/2012 11:53 AM, Cedric Puddy wrote:
>>>> A "slashed" 0 is for when clarity between "0" and "O" (zero
>>>> and capital letter "o") matters greatly.
>>>> 
>>>> Traditional console/terminal fonts take pains to distinguish
>>>> the two, since, on a computer, one cannot be certain that
>>>> there will be context to distinguish the two.  In "normal"
>>>> communication, it's rarely a problem, because we usually have
>>>> context to refer to.  A special circle of hell is reserved
>>>> for companies that generate license keys that have both
>>>> characters, and are printed in a font wherein both characters
>>>> are nearly identical? :)
>>>> 
>>>> It's not just an IBM thing -- I say it was a "pretty much 
>>>> everybody" thing, until we started letting non-computer
>>>> people use computers, instead of just admire them from a
>>>> distance.
>>>> 
>>>> -Cedric
>>>> 
>>>> On 2012-12-04, at 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)
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 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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