I thought the board went binary!

LAST EDITED ON Apr-28-04 AT 01:46 PM (CDT)
 
I just looked and the number of messages was 101010 !

yikes...made the hair on my neck (what's left of it!) stand up remembering programming in hex, octal, and assembler..

We've come a long way.

Curt:)

And of course those programs were for the control of FLYING simulators.

There are 10 kinds of people, thoes that understand binary and thoes that don't.

>I just looked and the number of messages was 101010 !
>

The answer to the time, universe, and everything is '2A' ???????

What was the question?

Lets see... two to the power of 0 = 1 and two to the power of 1 = 2
Divide by zero...

WOW thats BIG.

Regards,

>We've come a long way.

Not really. Why this backwards country still clings to the English standards of weights and measurements is beyond me. LBJ proposed a full conversion to the metric system back in the '60s. Forty years later, we're still debating it. Are the French really *that* repulsive?

SS (AMA 10100011001110110)

And for those of you who are totally geeky, click on the IP link in the lower left corner of the message box. Then do reverse lookups on the addresses...

SS (who takes his CCNA exam next week...)

Yes.

Besides, they don't have near as many highway signs to change. It would bankrupt Kansas for 3.7 years just to change mileage signs.

>Yes.
>
>Besides, they don't have near as many highway signs to
>change. It would bankrupt Kansas for 3.7 years just to
>change mileage signs.
>
>From somewhere near Parkville, Mo.
>William Crane
>AMA 6733

William,
Would that be Kansas for 00000011.10110110 years

Regards,

Lets see:

31 oct = 25 dec, therefore Halloween = Christmas...
How many are old enough to remember that one?

PS. (101010 = 42) since it is neither hexadecimal nor octal...just a binary number, right?

As old programmers say, "All's well that ends".

> Lets see:
>
> 31 oct = 25 dec, therefore Halloween = Christmas...
> How many are old enough to remember that one?
>
> PS. (101010 = 42) since it is neither hexadecimal nor
>octal...just a binary number, right?

All a matter of interpretation. Of course, the message counter is a decimal number, so it's just an odd coincidence it consists of only 0 or 1. But:

101010 (binary) = 52 (octal) = 2A (hex) = 42 (decimal)

101010 (decimal) = 305222 (octal) = 18a92 (hex) = 11000101010010010 (binary)

101010 (octal) = 001000001000001000 (binary) = 08208 (hex) = 33288 (decimal)

101010 (hex) = 000100000001000000010000 (binary) = 04010020 (octal) = 1052688 (decimal)

101010 (binary), i.e. strings of alternating one/zero bits, comes up in all sorts of places in the space and computer biz...

Or perhaps yes, no, yes, no, yes, no. depending on whether it's a number or a logic function. Then of course, which logic function?

Brett, I'll trust you for the rocket science part.