Reply to: The hexadecimal counting thread

[NickFitz]

ESC.

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We should send all posts from ESC onwards to an Epson FX-80 and see what it ends up doing.

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[NickFitz]

NickFitz! Help!!!

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[NickFitz]

I've never implemented it but I toyed with the idea of using a Base-ASCII numbering system where we use alphanumeric digits [0-9][a-z][A-Z]. I think that's base-62. I forget what the purpose of it was though.

That's basically the technique used for things like YouTube videos, URL shorteners, and other web applications that require humongous numbers of unique content identifiers without being able to split stuff across a hierarchy (or other way of partitioning the space of identifiers).

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[BrilloPad]

A clue, I work in EBCDIC...

NickFitz! Help!!!

[NickFitz]

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BBC BASIC style

[d000hg]

Got it in one.

I've never implemented it but I toyed with the idea of using a Base-ASCII numbering system where we use alphanumeric digits [0-9][a-z][A-Z]. I think that's base-62. I forget what the purpose of it was though.

[darmstadt]

Hex to ascii gives :-

??I??H???I???H????????dPf? ?U?`yg?@??W?S???

A clue, I work in EBCDIC...

[BrilloPad]

e9984984aa488a84a949998989489488a888889894
26450660420815503607967914095085714539413b

Hex to ascii gives :-

??I??H???I???H????????dPf? ?U?`yg?@??W?S???

[darmstadt]

e9984984aa488a84a949998989489488a888889894
26450660420815503607967914095085714539413b

[BrilloPad]

So how far had we got? Had we reached oXo yet?

[d000hg]

0x0g

Would this be septadecimal?

[SupremeSpod]

0xdeadbeef

[BrilloPad]

...oh my God...what do we do now?

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1x00?

Where has NickFitz gone

[BlasterBates]

...oh my God...what do we do now?

[BlasterBates]

oh God this is excruciatingly slow...

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