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RE: Singles Oct CHAT thread - How colorful are the leav... - 10/31/2008 2:32:21 PM
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JustJeannie
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Oh my goodness...isn't all Geek speak the same, Robb? 
Number bases, my dear faerie. 
We use decimal every day, of course. It's base 10, and the different numeral positions are powers of 10 (10's, 100's, 1000's, and so forth). Octal is base 8, only uses the digits 0-7, and the numeral positions are powers of 8 instead of 10. So 31 in octal is 3x8 + 1 = 25 in decimal (2x10 + 5). In binary (base 2) it's 11001 (1x16 + 1x8 + 0x4 + 0x2 + 1). And to really confuse you, there's hexadecimal, which is base 16 and uses 0-9 plus a-f as digits. 25 in hex is 19 (1x16 + 9).
Now that I've melted your brain with my extreme geekery, here's a Coke to help you recover. <Hands Tink a Coke> 
-Robb
I see how you are! Won't share with a fellow Pepsi-lover... 
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RE: Singles Oct CHAT thread - How colorful are the leav... - 10/31/2008 2:33:14 PM
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LabGuy
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Oh my goodness...isn't all Geek speak the same, Robb?
Number bases, my dear faerie.
We use decimal every day, of course. It's base 10, and the different numeral positions are powers of 10 (10's, 100's, 1000's, and so forth). Octal is base 8, only uses the digits 0-7, and the numeral positions are powers of 8 instead of 10. So 31 in octal is 3x8 + 1 = 25 in decimal (2x10 + 5). In binary (base 2) it's 11001 (1x16 + 1x8 + 0x4 + 0x2 + 1). And to really confuse you, there's hexadecimal, which is base 16 and uses 0-9 plus a-f as digits. 25 in hex is 19 (1x16 + 9).
Now that I've melted your brain with my extreme geekery, here's a Coke to help you recover. <Hands Tink a Coke>
-Robb
I see how you are! Won't share with a fellow Pepsi-lover...
<Presents a Pepsi to Jeannie on a silver platter>
-Robb
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RE: Singles Oct CHAT thread - How colorful are the leav... - 10/31/2008 2:36:35 PM
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Oh my goodness...isn't all Geek speak the same, Robb?
Number bases, my dear faerie.
We use decimal every day, of course. It's base 10, and the different numeral positions are powers of 10 (10's, 100's, 1000's, and so forth). Octal is base 8, only uses the digits 0-7, and the numeral positions are powers of 8 instead of 10. So 31 in octal is 3x8 + 1 = 25 in decimal (2x10 + 5). In binary (base 2) it's 11001 (1x16 + 1x8 + 0x4 + 0x2 + 1). And to really confuse you, there's hexadecimal, which is base 16 and uses 0-9 plus a-f as digits. 25 in hex is 19 (1x16 + 9).
Now that I've melted your brain with my extreme geekery, here's a Coke to help you recover. <Hands Tink a Coke>
-Robb
eh, yous just melted ME bwain wif dat!! Pepsi please??  But on a serious note, where do you use octal and hexadecimal?
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RE: Singles Oct CHAT thread - How colorful are the leav... - 10/31/2008 2:42:54 PM
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JustJeannie
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Oh my goodness...isn't all Geek speak the same, Robb?
Number bases, my dear faerie.
We use decimal every day, of course. It's base 10, and the different numeral positions are powers of 10 (10's, 100's, 1000's, and so forth). Octal is base 8, only uses the digits 0-7, and the numeral positions are powers of 8 instead of 10. So 31 in octal is 3x8 + 1 = 25 in decimal (2x10 + 5). In binary (base 2) it's 11001 (1x16 + 1x8 + 0x4 + 0x2 + 1). And to really confuse you, there's hexadecimal, which is base 16 and uses 0-9 plus a-f as digits. 25 in hex is 19 (1x16 + 9).
Now that I've melted your brain with my extreme geekery, here's a Coke to help you recover. <Hands Tink a Coke>
-Robb
I see how you are! Won't share with a fellow Pepsi-lover...
<Presents a Pepsi to Jeannie on a silver platter>
-Robb
AWWWWWWWWWWW thank you, kind Sir!!
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RE: Singles Oct CHAT thread - How colorful are the leav... - 10/31/2008 2:44:10 PM
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Can I have a Dr Pepper??
two short straws?
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RE: Singles Oct CHAT thread - How colorful are the leav... - 10/31/2008 2:47:06 PM
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Can I have a Dr Pepper??
two short straws?
I'd gladly share a Dr Pepper with two very short straws with you!
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RE: Singles Oct CHAT thread - How colorful are the leav... - 10/31/2008 2:51:58 PM
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LabGuy
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Oh my goodness...isn't all Geek speak the same, Robb?
Number bases, my dear faerie.
We use decimal every day, of course. It's base 10, and the different numeral positions are powers of 10 (10's, 100's, 1000's, and so forth). Octal is base 8, only uses the digits 0-7, and the numeral positions are powers of 8 instead of 10. So 31 in octal is 3x8 + 1 = 25 in decimal (2x10 + 5). In binary (base 2) it's 11001 (1x16 + 1x8 + 0x4 + 0x2 + 1). And to really confuse you, there's hexadecimal, which is base 16 and uses 0-9 plus a-f as digits. 25 in hex is 19 (1x16 + 9).
Now that I've melted your brain with my extreme geekery, here's a Coke to help you recover. <Hands Tink a Coke>
-Robb
eh, yous just melted ME bwain wif dat!! Pepsi please?? But on a serious note, where do you use octal and hexadecimal?
<Passes a Pepsi to Michelle>
With computers. I'm not exactly sure where octal comes in, but hex is used a lot. About the most basic unit of storage is one byte, which is composed of 8 binary bits, so it can represent the numbers 0-255. (255 = 2^8 - 1). That can be expressed as just a two digit hex number, with 255 = FF. It's really just a compact way of expressing binary. each hex digit directly corresponds to 4 binary bits or half a byte.
<Rolls in vending machines from Coke and Pepsi to accommodate further brain-melting>
-Robb
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RE: Singles Oct CHAT thread - How colorful are the leav... - 10/31/2008 2:58:41 PM
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JustJeannie
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ORIGINAL: LabGuy
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ORIGINAL: Grace-N-Mercy
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ORIGINAL: LabGuy
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ORIGINAL: Tinkerbell_
Oh my goodness...isn't all Geek speak the same, Robb?
Number bases, my dear faerie.
We use decimal every day, of course. It's base 10, and the different numeral positions are powers of 10 (10's, 100's, 1000's, and so forth). Octal is base 8, only uses the digits 0-7, and the numeral positions are powers of 8 instead of 10. So 31 in octal is 3x8 + 1 = 25 in decimal (2x10 + 5). In binary (base 2) it's 11001 (1x16 + 1x8 + 0x4 + 0x2 + 1). And to really confuse you, there's hexadecimal, which is base 16 and uses 0-9 plus a-f as digits. 25 in hex is 19 (1x16 + 9).
Now that I've melted your brain with my extreme geekery, here's a Coke to help you recover. <Hands Tink a Coke>
-Robb
eh, yous just melted ME bwain wif dat!! Pepsi please?? But on a serious note, where do you use octal and hexadecimal?
<Passes a Pepsi to Michelle>
With computers. I'm not exactly sure where octal comes in, but hex is used a lot. About the most basic unit of storage is one byte, which is composed of 8 binary bits, so it can represent the numbers 0-255. (255 = 2^8 - 1). That can be expressed as just a two digit hex number, with 255 = FF. It's really just a compact way of expressing binary. each hex digit directly corresponds to 4 binary bits or half a byte.
<Rolls in vending machines from Coke and Pepsi to accommodate further brain-melting>
-Robb
 You know I love you, right? My brain can't handle much more melting though.......
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RE: Singles Oct CHAT thread - How colorful are the leav... - 10/31/2008 3:00:02 PM
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I don’t know how much more trouble I”m gonna get myself into by the end of today, lol.
Sounds like lots.
I went and voted today!! (Father God, Please heal our land and preserve us from socialism)
Tonight the Girl gets her ears pierced!!
Well, I don’t know if I got myself in trouble, but playing Jillian Michaels is so much fun! LOL. How many times can one get away acting like a mean personal trainer? Once people lined up at the buffet tablet, I told them that only the two skinny guys can eat whatever they want and the rest can just nibble on the salad, lol. Then, I went around asking people if they really plan on eating everything on their plates or if they know know many calories they’re actually consuming. I can only get away with it during Haloween, so I played it up really good, lol. So far, everyone’s still talking to me, so I guess I didn’t go over the line too much. That was so much fun! Way more funner than had I worn the Catholic school girl uniform.
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RE: Singles Oct CHAT thread - How colorful are the leav... - 10/31/2008 4:29:55 PM
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With computers. I'm not exactly sure where octal comes in, but hex is used a lot. About the most basic unit of storage is one byte, which is composed of 8 binary bits, so it can represent the numbers 0-255. (255 = 2^8 - 1). That can be expressed as just a two digit hex number, with 255 = FF. It's really just a compact way of expressing binary. each hex digit directly corresponds to 4 binary bits or half a byte.
<Rolls in vending machines from Coke and Pepsi to accommodate further brain-melting>
-Robb
For the benefit of our non-geek members.....
Octal was used in the earlier machines (computers). The use of octal or hexadecimal is driven by the underlying hardware of the processor itself. All computers use base 2 as their native math system. Octal (being 2^3) and hexidecimal (being 2^4) are very easy to translate into machine code. so rather than dealing with long strings of ones and zeros in binary (usually grouped by 4's)
0110 1000 0110 1001 0010 0000 0111 0100 0110 1000 0110 0101 0111 0010 0110 0101
we can deal with shorter strings of digits and letters in hex (usually grouped by twos)
68 69 20 74 68 65 72 65
The beauty of hex (or octal) is that the translation from binary to hex and back is simple. Each group of 4 binary digits equals one of the hex digits.. (To do an octal translation we'd group the binary by threes)
This string of numbers is actually "hello there" in ascii format. But the machine doesn't read letters, only ones and zeros.
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RE: Singles Oct CHAT thread - How colorful are the leav... - 10/31/2008 4:42:42 PM
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JustJeannie
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*sits in corner with Pepsi and a dumbstruck look on her face*
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