On Wednesday, February 7, 2018 at 4:02:41 PM UTC-5, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Wed, 07 Feb 2018 11:39:00 -0000, Cindy Hamilton wrote:

On Tuesday, February 6, 2018 at 4:48:43 PM UTC-5, wrote:
On Tue, 6 Feb 2018 12:15:36 -0600, Mark Lloyd
wrote:

On 02/06/2018 09:11 AM, rbowman wrote:

[snip]

I often use base 16.

Cindy Hamilton


0723

0x1D3 (although I actually prefer $1D3), or even (at least some times)
%000111010011.

?

I am a hex guy. We would say x'01D3' for that binary string.
Cindy's notation looks like octal to me.
Binary is always going to be binary tho.
BCD anyone? ;-)
That is 6 bit code plus a parity bit hence 7 track tape drives.

The attributions got loused up. I favor 0x for hex. For example,
0x00001010 for a bitmask.

I've never heard "loused up" before. Where does that come from?

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/louse%20up

Cindy Hamilton