Thursday, April 23, 2009

ow, too many big words.

can someone please help me "translate" this?


All I can get out of it is that it has to do with calculating immense distances, and that was only because of the context I heard it in.
Posted by The Atlantean at 7:43 PM

8 comments:

  1. GhazalApril 25, 2009 at 11:09 AM

    Does this help? http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~holte/T26/radix-sort.html

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  2. The AtlanteanApril 25, 2009 at 11:11 AM

    not really...

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  3. JessicaApril 26, 2009 at 2:20 PM

    Wait do you want the definition for the FIRST section or the SECOND section?

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  4. The AtlanteanApril 26, 2009 at 3:02 PM

    both

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  5. JessicaApril 26, 2009 at 5:42 PM

    The second one is easy to grasp but hard to explain. No clue about the first one.
    Anyways, the second one basically...well, how can I put this?
    K, the number system we use normally is base 10. (like those base 10 blocks we played with in grade 2) What that means is the base 10 number system has 10 digits: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. So it's based on 10 digits.

    The binary system, on the other hand, is base 2(binary), so it's based on 2 digits: 0 and 1.

    And then the Hexadecimal system is based on 16 digits. Since there are no digits past 9, they used the first 6 letters of the alphabet, so the digits used are : 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, F.

    Does that help at all? I'm a bad explainer :(

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  6. JessicaApril 26, 2009 at 5:43 PM

    ^^Oh shoot that was long.

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  7. The AtlanteanApril 26, 2009 at 6:17 PM

    oohhh, I get it now. Thanx!

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  8. GhazalApril 28, 2009 at 1:16 PM

    I get it too.

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