Here's my age in several different radices.  Guess what radix each is in:

42

66

123

1020

1000010

111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111

...Bill

--- In [email protected], Merle Lester <merlewiitpom@...> wrote:
>
>  we are as old as we feel..merle
> 
>   
> My age is 1000010.
> 
> ...Bill!
> 
> --- In [email protected], "Joe" <desert_woodworker@> wrote:
> >
> > Anthony,
> > 
> > Well, I *am* Italian.  ;-)
> > 
> > But I give the hex number as my AGE, not as my year of birth.  I leave the 
> > two leading high significance places as zeroes because, well, I carry a lot 
> > of zeroes in the brain, I guess.
> > 
> > Can you really be 49 in hex, sir?  If so, I reckon you are then 64 plus 9 
> > years in decimal, or 73 orbits of the earth so far in age.  Does a person 
> > eventually get dizzy after a lot of orbits?
> > 
> > Live long and prosper,
> > 
> > --Joe
> > 
> > > Anthony Wu <wuasg@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Little Brother Joe,
> > >  
> > > x003C? Impossible. You would have been born in the time of Julius Caeser. 
> > > Simply 3C. I am 49 in hex, a cycle and one older/
> > >  
> >
>



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