30 Aug
2006
30 Aug
'06
4:34 p.m.
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Someones signiture (the "real programmers
get confused as Oct 31 = Dec 25") reminded
me about Octal.
I have heard of it, and know it's still used
on the Calculator program on Windoze (2K),
on the computers at work, but unlike Hex,
Dec and Binary I have no idea what it could
be used for, and why it would still be used
today. Anyone care to fill in the gaps, please?
To write down integers, perhaps? Hex is nice if your bits come in
multiples of 4; octal is nice if your bits come in multiples of 3. People
on this list claim to have computers with 12, 18, 24, 36, and 48 bit
registers, IIRC.
Alexey