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Law Bringer
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written Wednesday, November 9 2005 02:01
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Because I didn't post a 4k topic, I feel I'm entitled to a binary celebration. Yay for the twelfth power of two!   -------------------- The Encyclopaedia Ermariana <-- Now a Wiki! "Polaris leers down from the black vault, winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives to convey some strange message, yet recalls nothing save that it once had a message to convey." --- HP Lovecraft. "Really, Spiderweb is just a big, steaming pool of estrogen." --- Robin Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, November 9 2005 02:13
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What, you could only rustle up two images? Congratulations anyway. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Wednesday, November 9 2005 03:27
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In the time available (roughly five minutes). Also, I didn't feel like posting that many... -------------------- The Encyclopaedia Ermariana <-- Now a Wiki! "Polaris leers down from the black vault, winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives to convey some strange message, yet recalls nothing save that it once had a message to convey." --- HP Lovecraft. "Really, Spiderweb is just a big, steaming pool of estrogen." --- Robin Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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Master
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written Wednesday, November 9 2005 04:37
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How did you come across that first picture? It looks like an ols Dutch stamp! (Well, it is an old Dutch Stamp) It seems to say: "Statetelegraph The Netherlands," or something like that. Congratulations! -------------------- "remember, children, that chickens are your friends. you must only eat them when you've the appropriate oven and gardening supplies."- As said by Benjamin van Soldt himself. Click here for more information on Olga's fortune teller kiosk Olga's fortune teller kiosk has been temporarily closed down, but you can contact the prophet with a PM - Was signed by the prophet of the almighty chicken gods, gods of everything that is a chicken. Posts: 3029 | Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, November 9 2005 04:50
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quote:Same way everyone else does: Google Image search. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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Master
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written Wednesday, November 9 2005 05:09
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you're right. stupid question *bangs head against wall* :) I'll try not to ask to many of these questions. [ Wednesday, November 09, 2005 05:09: Message edited by: Thralni, emperor of Riverrod ] -------------------- "remember, children, that chickens are your friends. you must only eat them when you've the appropriate oven and gardening supplies."- As said by Benjamin van Soldt himself. Click here for more information on Olga's fortune teller kiosk Olga's fortune teller kiosk has been temporarily closed down, but you can contact the prophet with a PM - Was signed by the prophet of the almighty chicken gods, gods of everything that is a chicken. Posts: 3029 | Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Wednesday, November 9 2005 05:44
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Ah! Large Numbers! Why do people insist upon using inefficient base 10 systems? Posts: 661 | Registered: Thursday, December 27 2001 08:00 |
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Skip to My Lou
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written Wednesday, November 9 2005 05:59
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 -------------------- Take the Personality Test! INTJ 100% 75% 100% 44% Huzzah for the Masterminds! www.Keirsey.com for personality information. The Sloganizer! "Swing your Archmage Alex." Deep down, you wish you were a stick figure. Posts: 1629 | Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Wednesday, November 9 2005 08:38
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 —Alorael, who  vigorously.Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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Master
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written Wednesday, November 9 2005 18:55
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Congrats! Next step: 8192. ;) -------------------- -ben4808 For those who love to spam: CSM Forums RIFQ Posts: 3360 | Registered: Friday, June 25 2004 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, November 9 2005 19:02
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quote:Because it's more trouble than it's worth to convert to and from the other systems. Hexadecimal is great, but only if you're writing a number like 5689324986536 x 10^439834208734745. -------------------- "We can learn a lot from crayons. Some are short, some are dull, some are sharp, some are tall. Some have funny names and they are all different colors, but they all learn to live in the same box." "Happy is the man that has wisdom and gets discernment. For having wisdom as gain is better than having silver as gain and having wisdom as produce is better than gold itself" Proverbs 3:14-3:15 The horrible part about life is, you'll never get out of it alive. Currently boycotting: AngelFire, GameFAQ's Everybody should go to this site at least once. Posts: 818 | Registered: Tuesday, July 9 2002 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Wednesday, November 9 2005 19:46
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There's really nothing inherently superior about base 10 over base 11 or base 9. Too low a base and numbers become too long to write, though, and too high a base and you need an enormous variety of characters to write them. 10 is a happy medium, although I'd be fine with hexadecimal. —Alorael, who would like to introduce everyone to Mr. Tom Lehrer, professor emeritus of new math. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Wednesday, November 9 2005 20:36
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Binary is, believe it or not, quite easy once you get the hang of it. Just memorise the first 16 or so powers of 2 (1,2,4,8,16,32,64, 128,256,512,1024,2048,4096,8192,16534,32768,65536. It's quite easy, but maybe that's because I'm a maths nut :) ) Oct whatever (base 8), I've never bothered to try. Hexadecimal can be quite fun. Posts: 587 | Registered: Tuesday, April 1 2003 08:00 |
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Shaper
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written Wednesday, November 9 2005 20:44
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Congratulations, Aran. -------------------- Mugglenet--The ULTIMATE Harry Potter Site. Polaris-- New location. Posts: 2396 | Registered: Saturday, January 29 2005 08:00 |
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BANNED
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written Wednesday, November 9 2005 21:48
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Base 10 just so happens to be easier to use because of our, um, digits. -------------------- 私のバラドですそしてころしたいいらればころす Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Wednesday, November 9 2005 22:37
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Any puerile "base 11" jokes? ^_^ By the way, six by nine is forty-two in base 13. -------------------- The Encyclopaedia Ermariana <-- Now a Wiki! "Polaris leers down from the black vault, winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives to convey some strange message, yet recalls nothing save that it once had a message to convey." --- HP Lovecraft. "Really, Spiderweb is just a big, steaming pool of estrogen." --- Robin Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, November 9 2005 22:46
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quote:Binary only consists of 1 and 0. What you are displaying is the result of a bit (BInary Digit) times factor 1, 2, 4, 8, etcera and therefore making calculations possible. Just a regular letter on your pc-screen is a result of processing fixed binary values to a fixed image (fonts are sets of letter-images used for this purphose), later displayed on the screen. Hexadecimal 10 means 16 in regular decimals. 1E = 15, 1D = 14, 1C= 13, etcera. Octadecimal indeed uses base 8 and it is easier to learn that hexadecimal but just a little. The base 10 system was, by the way, introduced by Napoleon. Since the size of inches, feet, etcera differed from place to place, he decided to standardize the measurements with the new unit: meter You can probably read more in wikipedia if you are more curious about this or just search your attic for your old high school history book. Oh, and of course. I nearly forgot. Congratulations on your vain achievement of posting a large chunk of posts equal to the most basic 13-bit number and celebrating it. Hope to see more of you without the pointy partyhat. -------------------- So, as the great Groxy, I have come back to be served by goblins. In the "main hall" of the goblin cave was a large totem which resembled very much of... me. Posts: 437 | Registered: Friday, May 13 2005 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, November 9 2005 23:46
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Base 8 is called "octal", not "octadecimal", which would logically be base 18. :P And 6 * 9 isn't forty-two in base 13; it's 42. 42 is only equal to forty-two in base 10. :P Nor is base 10 the same thing as the metric system, although the metric system is indeed based around powers of 10. :P [ Wednesday, November 09, 2005 23:50: Message edited by: Explode Thuryl Now ] -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Thursday, November 10 2005 04:42
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quote:??? -------------------- The Encyclopaedia Ermariana <-- Now a Wiki! "Polaris leers down from the black vault, winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives to convey some strange message, yet recalls nothing save that it once had a message to convey." --- HP Lovecraft. "Really, Spiderweb is just a big, steaming pool of estrogen." --- Robin Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Thursday, November 10 2005 09:47
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The metric system has become popular because it's base ten like our number system. If we all used hexadecimal, we'd use a hexadecimal measurement system. There's no way to make the English system logical, because it's based on arbitrary ratios based on some ideal (but rather deformed) human body, among other things. Binary is theoretically fine, but writing 100000000 instead of 512 takes three (3 or 11) times as many digits. Base ten is not acceptable in polite company. Base twenty is more popular in areas warm enough to be comfortable without socks and shoes. Base twenty-one is most popular in tropical climes. —Alorael, who must insist that all systems are base 10. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Thursday, November 10 2005 10:27
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Indeed, if one were to read the value of every system in its own numbers. In fact, you could also refer to what is normally called base 16 as base 10000 in what is normally called base 2, and this would at the same time mean what is otherwise called base 4096 in what is usually referred to as base 8. Confused yet? -------------------- The Encyclopaedia Ermariana <-- Now a Wiki! "Polaris leers down from the black vault, winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives to convey some strange message, yet recalls nothing save that it once had a message to convey." --- HP Lovecraft. "Really, Spiderweb is just a big, steaming pool of estrogen." --- Robin Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, November 10 2005 11:31
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Wuss. Try using base prime. *this message sponsored by RW* Posts: 4114 | Registered: Monday, April 25 2005 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Thursday, November 10 2005 12:38
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Which prime? Or... horrors... are we talking about *different* primes for all the digits? As in, the second digit has the value of two, the third of three, the fourth of five, the fifth of seven, the sixth of eleven and so on? No thanks, I've grown fond of what little sanity I regenerated in my time here. -------------------- The Encyclopaedia Ermariana <-- Now a Wiki! "Polaris leers down from the black vault, winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives to convey some strange message, yet recalls nothing save that it once had a message to convey." --- HP Lovecraft. "Really, Spiderweb is just a big, steaming pool of estrogen." --- Robin Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, November 10 2005 12:45
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Yes, that prime would make for some interesting calculations... *this message sponsored by your local state hospital* Posts: 4114 | Registered: Monday, April 25 2005 07:00 |
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written Thursday, November 10 2005 15:25
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.ii.i.ii.iii.iiii.ii.i.ii.ii.iii.ii.i.i.iii.i.ii.ii.i.i (2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2) ."""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" -------------------- ^ö^ I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian. George Bernard Shaw Posts: 1420 | Registered: Wednesday, October 2 2002 07:00 |
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