On Feb 10, 2005, at 05:43, Johan Geldenhuys wrote:
I am not so clued up on the 'base 2' and 'base 8' stuff. Care to explain that a little?
Usually, we use base 10 numbers, that is, numbers that can be represented with 10 symbols (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9).
Binary, or base 2, represents all the numbers with only 2 symbols (0 and 1), whereas octal (base 8) uses 8 (0 to 7) and hexadecimal (base 16) uses 16 (0 to 9 then A to F).
In binary, 0b10 = 2, and 0b100 = 4.
In octal, 010 = 8 and 0100 = 64.
In hexadecimal, 0x10 = 16 and 0x100 = 256.Is that clearer now?
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