For what seems like a VERY long time now, I have been trying to create, with my very limited programming knowledge and skill, a QBasic program that could convert Decimal numbers to Binary, and vice versa. I gave up on that project, but, I figured out how to program an XL Spreadsheet to do the conversions for me. :) For some reason I was unable to make the embeded IF statements go any deeper than 8 levels. So, I had to put the HEX converters on one set, and the OCT converters on another. Anyway, I created two version of my Number Converstion Table, one only does DEC to BIN and vice versa, and the first sheet is printable and makes sense on paper. The other version is for DEC, HEX, OCT to BIN and vice versa, and the first sheet doesn't make as much sense when printed, so I don't use that for number crunching on paper.
If you guys wanna see it, I can send them to one of you. If not, thats ok too. I enabled Share and Protect on them, just in case someone decided to change them but saved them when the didn't really want to save the changes. That way they can see what changes they made and revert the things back. :) Anyhow, I really like MY conversion table a heck of a lot better than the one made by one of my instructors. We were given a packet of various numbers in DECinary, HEXadecimal, OCTal, and BINary, and were instructed to complete the number conversions on the packets useing whatever methods we could devise on our own, based on the lecture and video we watched and listened too. Then about one or two days later one of the instructors made up a bunch of conversion tables to aid us in our efforts. I didn't like the table and made my own. Then I added automatic conversion code to the documents so that I can just plug the numbers in and get the answers. :) Technicaly, it isn't really cheating since I'm not just punching numbers into a Scientific Calculator. I had to UNDERSTAND the conversion process in order to create the document. So they can't argue that I don't UNDERSTAND how to convert the number systems. :) For instance, to convert from OCT, Base 8, to HEX, Base 16, I would first convert it to BIN, Base 2, then I would convert the BIN to HEX. :) The first thing to remember, of course, is that all numbering systems of today utilize the idea of "0", or null, or none, or nothing. This means that BIN is 0-1, OCT is 0-7, DEC is 0-9, and HEX is 0-F. Everyone who deals as extensively with programming as you guys would know all this by heart, right? :) But what about converting a really WIERD numbering system that is Base 11?!!!! :) Woah. Anyway, my point is, I had not known the basics of number conversion until the day we watched a video produced by the Electronics department about number conversions. Very educational. :) Anyway, in my class at least, we need a Table to make it simple and easy to convert number systems. And I believe I invented the better mouse trap. :) Aaron. ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. _______________________________________________ Chat mailing list Chat at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/chat
