Danny and Dave, super thanks on the plain text advice. i'm sending this mail on plain text, please let me know if it turned out to be otherwise
back to the problem just googled binary and i now have some idea on it. i now understand turning on 16 and 8 gives 24 and thus 4+8 = 12. why is this? i now understand this bit. but i still couldnt get this line though D = (( D << 1) + 1) & masks [ c ] On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 12:37 AM, Dave Angel <[email protected]> wrote: > rahmad akbar <[email protected]> Wrote in message: >> >> > to Dave, >> i do i do the text mode? i had no idea this was on html > > Whatever mail program you're using is apparently defaulting to > html. Find a menu item that specifies 'text' or 'plain text' or > 'text only'. > > Or tell us what email program you're using, what os, and versions > for each. Maybe someone will have experience with > it. > > Back to your problem, do you understand what binary is, and how > to convert (mentally) to and from decimal? Do you know that the > bits have values of 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, etc? And that 24 is created > by turning on the 16 bit and the 8 bit, commonly referred to as > bits 4 and 3, respectively. > > > -- > DaveA > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - [email protected] > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor -- many thanks mat _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
