[Tutor] Hex to Str - still an open issue

R. Alan Monroe amonroe at columbus.rr.com
Thu Feb 10 12:45:41 CET 2005


> I am not so clued up on the 'base 2' and 'base 8' stuff.
> Care to explain that a little?


Easy. Imagine the numerals 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 were never invented.
You'd start counting at 0.
Next would come 1.
Now you've maxed out your first column so you have to carry to the
next column, so next would come 10.

Alan



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