Date: 28 Jan 2001 01:09:47 +0100 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@inwind.it> Cc: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OT again: Re: hexidecimal literacy Message-ID: <xzpbssspmes.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Salvo Bartolotta's message of "Sat, 27 Jan 2001 23:47:38 GMT" 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>
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Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@inwind.it> 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
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