Screwed up phrases people use

[VRM]

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

[Ron61]

Steve,

After we got real words and could keep them on something besides rocks, the language got all fouled up.

Boy does your remark about trying to explain Hex, Binary, and Decimal bring back some frustrating memories. Then try throwing Octal in with it. I finally found a calculator that would convert between the different ones and showed that to a guy and he still told me that no computer could make words out of just 0s and 1s. I watched a show on TV last night about the beginning of the computer age and boy did some of that stuff bring back memories. The old black monitors and no graphics or words, just code that you had to interpret. And then they showed the first portable computer and what a laugh. I think it weighed about 25 pounds and looked like a medium sized suitcase. Darn for the good old days of rocks and chisels.

Ron