From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jan 27 16:10: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12CF937B401 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 16:09:52 -0800 (PST) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA03261; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:09:49 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Salvo Bartolotta Cc: Mike Meyer , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OT again: Re: hexidecimal literacy References: <14963.8033.752142.149320@guru.mired.org> <20010127.20140200@bartequi.ottodomain.org> <14963.13797.116165.382738@guru.mired.org> <20010127.22394200@bartequi.ottodomain.org> <14963.21950.110019.468965@guru.mired.org> <20010127.23473800@bartequi.ottodomain.org> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 28 Jan 2001 01:09:47 +0100 In-Reply-To: Salvo Bartolotta's message of "Sat, 27 Jan 2001 23:47:38 GMT" Message-ID: Lines: 11 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Salvo Bartolotta writes: > I was thinking of a *positional* system of the kind a*(base raised to > 0) + b * (base raised to 1) + ... Yes. 11111 in unary is 1*(1^0) + 1*(1^1) + 1*(1^2) + 1*(1^3) + 1*(1^4). DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message