Since Ogre hasn't put in an appearance yet, I think I'll one up Buster on the nerdiness of this thread. Yes, it would cycle back to 0 if it was an unsigned short on a standard Intel processor using C. However, isn't there a possibility (admittidly slim) that ONS is using something weird that defines shorts as something other than 16 bits? Although I guess I've never heard of any system that specially defines 17 bit values which is what it would take for it to cycle back to -65536.
Oh and I'd never heard the hex one before. I like that
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10-10-2003, 02:11 PM #26
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10-10-2003, 02:22 PM #27
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"would you like that burrito binary or hexasized for a dollar more?"Originally posted by Pinner
Telluride really needs a good burrito shop.
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10-10-2003, 09:55 PM #28
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Come on Buster, true geeks are distinguished by their mastering of the rare octal (especially those long lists produced by od(1)), not the common hex and binary.</geek>
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10-10-2003, 10:32 PM #29
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octal
oh come on people, octal isn't hard at all!
base 10 - base 2 = base 8
Math illiteracy affects 7 out of every 5 people.
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10-10-2003, 10:39 PM #30
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Gonna need a partner...Originally posted by Pinner
Silverton really needs a good burrito shop.
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10-10-2003, 11:04 PM #31
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i know restaurants (20 yrs in the trenches) AND am one of those 10 kinds of people.
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