@Mehman:
Bases are essentially a different way of counting. The way most people count is base-10, also known as decimal. This means we use 10 distinct characters to count--0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. Once you get past nine, then you start using two digits--10, 11, 12, etc.
Other bases exist for various reasons, like base-2, better known as binary; the language of computers. Base-2 works because in circuitry, it's much faster if you just differentiate between current and no current instead of trying to figure out what level of current there is. The two digits are 0 and 1--to count from one to ten in binary would look something like this: 0, 1, 10, 11, 100, 101, 110, 111, 1000, 1001, 1010.
Base-16, also known as hexadecimal, is used for its conciseness; two digits alone can represent any value from 0-255. Hex uses the characters 0-9 as well as A-F, so counting from one to thirty-two looks like this: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, F, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D, 1E, 1F, 20.
Hope that helps.
Last edited by Bluesparkks; 2012-07-13 at 07:29 PM.
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Ziru came in the thread yesterday I think and said that not many games have actually been fun for him. The last fun game was Bastion, that was until he found Chantelise. As you'd imagine he recommended it.
It was fairly cheap so I bought it. It's basically a translated Japanese game (I assume Japanese anyway). I can't really describe the game, but it hasn't given me a good first impression.
I had this idea about r34 pic of Moakai and Zyra, just waiting for it to become a reality.
"Would you please let me join your p-p-party?
Man, I should flippin' write textbooks. Then maybe they'd actually be good for something other than a lesson plan for lazy teachers.
It really only works with stuff I know really well though; I taught myself bases back in high school so I could program calculators with z80 assembly and TI-Basic. Assembly was hard to learn, but I got a lot of insight into how computers work and process things.
I mean...thanks. Yeah.
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