>[ObComputers] The original, *correct* name for the base-sixteen
>number system is "sexadecimal." IBM couldn't stand this name for
>obvious reasons, so they came up with "hexadecimal" to replace it.
Uhm... odd... if octal is base-8, decimal is base-10, hexadecimal would be
base-16 (hexadeci - 16). I saw an argument about the correct term for base 16
a while back in a programming column in a PC magazine - alternatives I can
remember are sexadecimal and sexagesimal - IIRC one of those turned out to be
base-60.
>Sorry. I won't do it any more. BTW, did you know that if you add up the
>ASCII values of the letters "BILL GATES" -- remember, he's really Bill
>Gates the Third -- you get.... eh, never mind.
'BILL GATES 3' to be precise :) *cower from listmaster*
>Life's a bitch, then you die. Then you come back! (Line from some awful
>zombie story, I don't recall the title.)
I think you qualified 'awful zombie story' twice there... Actually, I used to
believe in reincarnation but that was in a previous life.
Regards, Home page: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/8786
Ben A L Jemmett ICQ: 9848866 JGSD e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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