2009/4/10 Tim <ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au>: > If you're a moderately old-timer, you can do hex to binary in your head. > If you're even older, you can do octal to decimal, and vice versa. For > extra brownie points, you know EBCDIC in your head. ;-)
I'm under 30 and I can do that. I belong to probably one of the first generations that grew up with Computers in the home. (ZX81 -> ZX Spectrum 48K -> IBM AT etc.). Am I classified as a moderately old-timer yet? Hex to binary is pretty easy because each digit represents a separate nibble and my Mother taught me that at a young age. I'm not so good on oct<->dec because I don't actually see or use that many octal numbers, but I can just about do it in my head. EBCDIC, I've never needed to know because ASCII won that war before I was out of short trousers ;oP -- Sam -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
