Are you smarter than a 16 yr old?

[MajGenl.Meade]

Nah, he didn't - in binary 8 = 0

[Big RR]

Wouldn't it actually be 1000?

Maybe he gave himself extra credit for figuring the math out by hand and not using your shortcut (which hit me after I worked it out by hand)?

[MajGenl.Meade]

Don't complicate things. He isn't bad at math but he is bad at binary. Had problems translating his 0/7 score..... but I knew his error!

[rubato]

So how did the 16 year old do?


yrs,
rubato

[Bicycle Bill]

Don't complicate things. He isn't bad at math but he is bad at binary. Had problems translating his 0/7 score..... but I knew his error!

In binary, 0 is still 0 and 1 is still 1 (although to indicate the usage of binary, it is usually shown as '01').  2 is 10; 3 is 11; 4 is 100, and so on and so on.

Incidentally, did you know that you can count up to 31 on one hand ... if you're using binary?

-"BB"-

[oldr_n_wsr]

16 in hex is 22 in decimal.
So, are you smarter than a 22 year old?

[Bicycle Bill]

16 in hex is 22 in decimal.
So, are you smarter than a 22 year old?

Since it is actually hexidecimal — base 16, using 16 characters (zero thru nine to represent their usual values, and the letters A thru F to represent the values 10 thru 15) — why, then, do they call it 'hex'?  'Hex' is a prefix meaning 'six', not 'sixteen'.

-"BB"-

[oldr_n_wsr]

"Hex", short for hexidecimal.
Efficiency of syllables?
No one uses base 6 numbering systems?

Early in my electronics career I worked at Chyron and the Chyron III and RGU, Remote Graphics Unit were octal based systems. As were the Chyron IV and the 4100. The CPU in those systems was not an integrated cpu (like the Z80 or 8088). It was mostly discrete flip flops and ttl gates/logic. The board was about 12" x 14" in size. And it wasn't printed circuit, it was wire-wrap.

Later on, starting with the SCRIBE product line, we used the motorola 68k family of processors. IIRC early Apple computers were 68k based also.

[Big RR]

I recall octal programming via toggle switches for the PDP 8 I worked with. A computer about the size of a cubical with 4K of RAM (or whatever they called it then) and a 4K disc. The "keyboard" was a telex machine, and the programs could also be inputted by punched paper tapes.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Don't complicate things. He isn't bad at math but he is bad at binary. Had problems translating his 0/7 score..... but I knew his error!

In binary, 0 is still 0 and 1 is still 1 (although to indicate the usage of binary, it is usually shown as '01').  2 is 10; 3 is 11; 4 is 100, and so on and so on.

Incidentally, did you know that you can count up to 31 on one hand ... if you're using binary?

Sheesh, Bill. Get a sense of humor, willya?

And no, I did not know that but I do know that rubato can count to 31 on one hand without using binary.