Sunday, December 23, 2007
funny gtalk chat
So I just had a gtalk chat with a friend because I decided to make today National Binary Encoding day. Though obviously this blog breaks that rule. I sometimes just like to explain to people what binary or hexadecimal number systems are and I decided to write all of this. Then I really found the final response funny.
Gtalk text below:
me: Hex is a 16 digit base system instead of 10 base which we use. So 0-9 is the same but then 10=A 11=B 12=C 13![[equal grin]](http://mail.google.com/mail/images/cleardot.gif)
14=E 15=F 16=10. Its not that complicated if you think about that its always a 2 digit pair. The first digit is how many 16's there are and the second is how many in between. So 32=20 because its 2 16's and no remainder. 33=21 and so on. Make since?
me: The ascii table has a binary/hex reference for any possble keyboard option. Eventually everything is converted to binary since computers at their most basest level are in binary which is 1 or 0 or on or off., So the binary data is actually tell the computer to put power to a transistor or not
Friend: Dave
me: Thanks for taking part in Daves School of Technology
Gtalk text below:
me: Hex is a 16 digit base system instead of 10 base which we use. So 0-9 is the same but then 10=A 11=B 12=C 13
14=E 15=F 16=10. Its not that complicated if you think about that its always a 2 digit pair. The first digit is how many 16's there are and the second is how many in between. So 32=20 because its 2 16's and no remainder. 33=21 and so on. Make since?Here is a conversion chart. http://www.dewassoc.com/support/msdos/decimal_hexadecimal.htm
Then to take those to actually letter you need to use what is called and AscII table. http://www.asciitable.com/
me: The ascii table has a binary/hex reference for any possble keyboard option. Eventually everything is converted to binary since computers at their most basest level are in binary which is 1 or 0 or on or off., So the binary data is actually tell the computer to put power to a transistor or not
Friend: Dave
Ok
me: Thanks for taking part in Daves School of Technology
Friend: I just got dumber
Didn't think that was possible
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