On Fri, 2011-12-23 at 09:55 +0000, Jack Knight wrote:
> Well Jim, you've only got 1 year to go before you can (re)adopt the > practice I have done - i.e. quoting your rapidly increasing age in > Hex; 40 has a nice ring to it don't you think? ;^)= I've long since adopted a mathematical system. Take an age in decimal, if it's odd, subtract a one and hold on to it. Divide the remainder by two to get the a number base. Your age is now 20 or 21 depending on whether you add back a subtracted one. So I'm 21 right now, next year I'll be twenty again, but next year the number base will be thirty (or 0x1E if I _really_ want to confuse :-) Of course, once you're comfortable with the general principle, you can overlook the maths. Who needs it .. trust me, I'm 21, really! ATB, Gordon. -- Gordon Scott www.gscott.co.uk 01256-476547 0794-1958207 -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------