Blimey is octal still used for anything other than calculators? its a long long time ago since I learnt multiplication in numbers with other bases and how to convert 1 base to another. Nowadays its pretty much all good old fashioned denaryroscowgo wrote:Now if i was doing real electronics.... then hex and binary would help me. Maybe even a touch of octal here and there.
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Re: Astronomical brain frying
So like 54863 times the length of Han Solo's kessel run? Nice..Nibblet99 wrote: This is equal to roughly 658 357.706 Parsecs
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storysunfolding wrote:So like 54863 times the length of Han Solo's kessel run? Nice..Nibblet99 wrote: This is equal to roughly 658 357.706 Parsecs
Sooo I can't remember was there a stated time he did that run in? If so, is the millenium falcon faster or slower than the galaxy?
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I have no idea..... i havent messed with anything other than binary, and base 10 in a long while. And even binary is pretty rare.Nibblet99 wrote: Blimey is octal still used for anything other than calculators? its a long long time ago since I learnt multiplication in numbers with other bases and how to convert 1 base to another. Nowadays its pretty much all good old fashioned denary
