JamesP_81 Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 Switching your calculator to hexadecimal mode at school unlocked a whole new world of childish things you could type while everyone else was still sniggering away at typing 80085. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Left Back Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 28 minutes ago, hk blues said: As you should be. P.S. Can you ask him how hexadecimals actually work? Exactly the same as decimals except it's base 16 instead of base 10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hk blues Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 2 minutes ago, Left Back said: Exactly the same as decimals except it's base 16 instead of base 10 I know the system but how is it actually used. in practice? How would you know if the number 162315 was 16-2-3-15 or 1-6-2-3-1-5? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvio Tattiescone Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 1 hour ago, BFTD said: My son pointed out that the long delivery numbers are hexadecimal. Pwoud, very pwoud. 8 minutes ago, JamesP_81 said: Switching your calculator to hexadecimal mode at school unlocked a whole new world of childish things you could type while everyone else was still sniggering away at typing 80085. 4 minutes ago, Left Back said: Exactly the same as decimals except it's base 16 instead of base 10 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 1 hour ago, BFTD said: My son pointed out that the long delivery numbers are hexadecimal. Pwoud, very pwoud. Why can’t they just leave things alone. There was no hexadecimal when I was a lad and the world was a better place for it. No deliveries either… 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Left Back Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 4 minutes ago, hk blues said: I know the system but how is it actually used. in practice? How would you know if the number 162315 was 16-2-3-15 or 1-6-2-3-1-5? it would be 1-6-2-3-1-5. Hex characters are 0-9 then A-F to represent 0 through to 15. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Steele Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 4 hours ago, Leith Green said: Wheezing lazy b*****ds on mobility scooters getting in my way in the shops - or the same people a few years younger just being slow fat fuckers taking up the space limping along in oversized jobby catchers toward Greggs (thats when they are not sitting outside tabbing away with their fat bairns). eta - Particularly in Cameron Toll shopping centre, Edinburgh. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trackdaybob Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 5 hours ago, Jacksgranda said: I've never had a cold McDonalds yet. You've been though. Right? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 3 hours ago, hk blues said: As you should be. P.S. Can you ask him how hexadecimals actually work? I did base numbers at school just as the Star Trek 25th anniversary computer game came out. It had a level where you had to translate numbers into base 3 and base 16 to get through a door. Easily the best Star Trek video game. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 2 hours ago, hk blues said: I know the system but how is it actually used. in practice? How would you know if the number 162315 was 16-2-3-15 or 1-6-2-3-1-5? You wouldn't, unless there were letters in that particular number. When you're writing them down, you're supposed to put a subscript '16' at the end of a hex number, like 16321516. Change that to a '10' for our standard decimal numbers, or a '2' for binary, etc. If anyone's actually curious, your number positions change to multiples of 16 for hex. So for decimal 162315, you'd have 1 x 100,000s, 6 x 10,000s, 2 x 1,000s, 3 x 100s, 1 x 10s, and 5 x 1s. In hex, it would represent 1 x 1,048,576s, 6 x 65,536s, 2 x 4096s, 3 x 256s, 1 x 16s, and 5 x 1s. So 16231516 is equal to 1,450,77310. In other words, the price of a large Big Mac meal in six months' time. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 5 hours ago, BFTD said: My son pointed out that the long delivery numbers are hexadecimal. Pwoud, very pwoud. What is hexadecimal? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathematics Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 23 hours ago, Melanius Mullarkay said: Signature strips on new bank cards. Shinier than Rhianna’s fiveheid. ImpossIble to sign. Who the f**k signs their bank cards these days? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 1 minute ago, mathematics said: Who the f**k signs their bank cards these days? Nobody, because its fucking impossible. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 9 minutes ago, 101 said: What is hexadecimal? Its like a metrosexual only sixteen of them. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 32 minutes ago, 101 said: What is hexadecimal? It's the number system used by our reptilian overlords, as they have eight fingers on each hand (beat that, Fifers). I take it you're not signed up to David Icke's newsletter? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 15 minutes ago, BFTD said: It's the number system used by our reptilian overlords, as they have eight fingers on each hand (beat that, Fifers). I take it you're not signed up to David Icke's newsletter? Do only uses numbers 1-8? What's the point in that? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 10 minutes ago, 101 said: Do only uses numbers 1-8? What's the point in that? No, that's octal, the system used by four-fingered Fifers. Our overlords have sixteen fingers in total. Y'know, like how most of us have ten fingers on our hands, so we developed a number system based around multiples of ten. Spoiler If you'd like a serious answer, it's a simple way of representing large binary numbers. The number 255 in decimal is 11111111 in binary - imagine how many 1s and 0s you'd need to use for the number 1,000,00010. You can group them into less-unwieldy figures with hex, as 16 is a multiple of 2, where things get more complicated converting to decimal. Binary, of course, the number system used by our robot overlords, who only acknowledge two states: DEAD and NOT YET DEAD. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 Just now, BFTD said: No, that's octal, the system used by four-fingered Fifers. Our overlords have sixteen fingers in total. Y'know, like how most of us have ten fingers on our hands, so we developed a number system based around multiples of ten. Hide contents If you'd like a serious answer, it's a simple way of representing large binary numbers. The number 255 in decimal is 11111111 in binary - imagine how many 1s and 0s you'd need to use for the number 1,000,00010. You can group them into less-unwieldy figures with hex, as 16 is a multiple of 2, where things get more complicated converting to decimal. Binary, of course, the number system used by our robot overlords, who only acknowledge two states: DEAD and NOT YET DEAD. This seems overly complex, I can barely cope with simple multiplication and division. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 9 minutes ago, 101 said: This seems overly complex, I can barely cope with simple multiplication and division. Sadly, neither the reptilords nor Skynet's killing machines will listen to reason. Thankfully the three-fingered Martians from War of the Worlds are just fiction. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honest_Man#1 Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 Turned up to play squash tonight and apparently an error in the app meant they’d double booked the court but hadn’t told us prior to getting there, then for some unknown reason the other people booked on the slot were the ones chosen to get to use it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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