30 Aug
2006
30 Aug
'06
5:32 p.m.
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?
Back in the day... (Nah, I won't go there)
When you get right to it, a number base is a
number base. To me, one is a good as another.
In college, I remember that a fair number of
people (CS majors) were of the opinion that it
was easier to remember to carry sooner and have
your numbers contain digits only (octal) rather
than carry later and have alpha characters in
your numbers (hex). Also, I think that some
machines may have had address and/or data widths
that were divisible by three and not four (36 bits
maybe?).
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