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Originally Posted by 1ntCobra
Base 10 is quite popular throughout the world.
But goof ball programmers like myself sometimes like to think of things in base 2, base 8 and base 16. You know there are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.  |
I tried to explain hex, binary, and decimal to a friend of mine one day - he was most unhappy about the letters being used as numbers! The 10 of us sat there drinking beers whilst I explained that 2 was the same as 10, and that 10 was also the same as A, but that A did not equal either 10 or 2.
Steve