Circuits talk 1s and 0s ...not hex Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD
'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' > On Dec 8, 2013, at 1:58 PM, Scott Ford <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hexadecimal is a readable system for binary, if the hex characters are not > numbers per se they are EBCDIC...that's been since I wrote BAL on s360/20 > > Scott ford > www.identityforge.com > from my IPAD > > 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' > > >> On Dec 8, 2013, at 1:55 PM, Warren Brown <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> So , hexadecimal is not the same EBCDIC ? >> >> >> ________________________________ >> From: David L. Craig <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Sunday, December 8, 2013 1:44 PM >> Subject: Re: "hexadecimal"? >> >> >>> On 13Dec08:0942-0800, Charles Mills wrote: >>> >>> It is a pet peeve of mine. People use "hex" sloppily >>> to mean "binary" (what I think IBM means in your >>> example) or "non-printable" ("does it look like a DD >>> name?" "Nyah, it's a bunch of hex."). >>> >>> Hex is not a kind of data. It is a convenient way of >>> representing data. X'F1' is a clearer image in most >>> cases than 11110001 or 241. All data is potentially >>> hex; that is, is representable in hex. That's the >>> beauty of hex. >> >> I would not expect to read this on this maining list. >> The original floating-point hardware of the S/360 >> architecture is hexadecimal, not binary. A normalized >> value may have up to three leading binary zeros as a >> consequence. >> -- >> <not cent from sell> >> May the LORD God bless you exceedingly abundantly! >> >> Dave_Craig______________________________________________ >> "So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. >> You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. >> Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe." >> __--from_Nightfall_by_Asimov/Silverberg_________________ >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
