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> On 1 May 2016, at 7:59 PM, RM <richmondmathew...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It must be somewhere on the sunny side of 40 years since > I did anything like this: probably with Mrs Whitaker when I was > about 10 (1972) . . . and she, poor woman, has probably been > gathered to the Great Primary Maths Classroom in the sky. > > So: here I am mucking around trying to convert Decimal numbers > into Hexadecimal numbers [nutty things I have done, #5,283] and > falling foul of the fact that I failed to remember what Mrs Whitaker > taught me [sin, sin and more sin] . . . > > So: 13492571 mod 16 = 11 (or 'B'). > > Which is all very fine and dandy, > > BUT, what is the non-mod bit? > > I suppose . . . . the best thing to do would be to do this: > > 13492571 / 16 = 843285.6875 and somehow chop off the > numbers after the decimal point . . . > > I would be most grateful if someone could tell me how to do that . . . > > Richmond. > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
