"Michael S. Davis" wrote:
>
> On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Aaron Ardiri wrote:
>
> > hexadecimal is a representation of a number, but in a different
> > base that you (humans) are used to. you have a number of bases,
> > being:
>
> Humans are used to 'one' base and not others? Some (not sub) humans
> are used to other bases:-)
not to prolong this ot thread, but a good friend of mine counts in
binary with his fingers. ten fingers yields 2^10 different numbers
rather than the normal yield of 10. he can count faster in binary than
i can in decimal. if you call out a random number between 0-1023, he
can immediately hold up the correct value. its the most amazing thing!
:P
