Hex(?) post #'s

Your_mom · Post by **Your_mom** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 4:47 pm

It seems adding the new sub forums has broken something. Topics, posts, replies, and views are all displaying as what appears to be some broken hex(or some such thing).

OT. Should the topic 0.2.8.3_beta1: Release process and bugs be moved from development to the sub forum beta testing?

DDMJ · Post by **DDMJ** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 5:47 pm

Screenshot:

Post by **epsy** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 9:38 pm

keep that

wrtlprnft · Post by **wrtlprnft** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 11:15 pm

/me loves it

Website · Post by **Z-Man** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 12:38 am

Geeky! Keep!

Oh yeah, sorry, that thread is really in the wrong subforum. My bad. However, it's really more looking like a cram-some-last-features-into-it thread, so it's fine where it is.

Post by **Tank Program** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 1:54 am

z-man wrote:Happy 0x100th post, Psyko!

Believe it or not, this isn't something broken. Staring at Psyko having 255 posts for ages and ages and keeping on thinking "ff" gave me a crazy idea. Since I was at maintenance when I created the new sub-forum, I did some other maintaining as well. I think I'll leave it like this for a little while.

At least until we all learn how to count in hex and forget about how to count in dec. As well as confusing Halloween and Christmas.

philippeqc · Post by **philippeqc** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 10:31 am

Tank Program wrote:At least until we all learn how to count in hex and forget about how to count in dec. As well as confusing Halloween and Christmas.

hex date, -that- would be confusing.

/ph

wrtlprnft · Post by **wrtlprnft** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 11:43 am

Tank Program wrote:At least until we all learn how to count in hex and forget about how to count in dec.

Hex is harmless. Try setting your calculator to output everything in base 9 while still treating input as base 10 (but without indicating that it does that) and lend it to someone. Have fun watching how long it takes for them to notice that the output is total rubbish and doesn't contain any nines.

Luke-Jr · Post by **Luke-Jr** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 2:31 pm

philippeqc wrote:hex date, -that- would be confusing.

Today's hex date is b30,fa. Just 6 more days till new years'!

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 7:22 pm

This is awesome!

wrtl

Post by **Tank Program** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 8:41 pm

I still can't count in hex so it still stays.

Post by **Lucifer** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 9:16 pm

I'm getting better, as amazing as it sounds. Maybe if I work numbers in hex instead of decimal, I can finally start remembering bigger numbers again.

Post by **Tank Program** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 11:55 pm

Multiplying by 4096 then adding multiplied by 256 adding multiplied by 16 and adding again. While converting the individual digits rather has me going for a loop.

Post by **Lucifer** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 12:00 am

I'm aiming for intuitively knowing the value of the number, same way I recognize base 10 numbers. So all that crazy multiplying will just bog me down, I think. Something more bayesian in nature is better....

(Have been able to recognize f* for a long time, but what the hell is 8a? Maybe I'm really going to wind up learning it all by rote)

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 12:32 am

Intuitive arithmetic is even more fun. Like arriving at B0A+EBD=19C7 in a few seconds without resorting to writing things down or anything.