Binary system

[Sandman]

There's a guy I work with... when he feels stressed, he writes numbers on sheets of paper.

One day, he left the note. Took us a minute or two to realize what it was and then we weren't sure we should be amazed or just scared. It was pi (without the 3), down to over 200 decimal places.

[Nilsen]

Originally posted by Dago
Wow, you are really gonna impress the girls with your knowledge of binary code.  I would spring it on them early in the date, start discussing how interesting the binary code is and how you can use it.  Doing so will probably save you the cost of a meal, as she will immediatly remember something critical that she must leave to do, or she will remember someone dieing she needs to go see immediatly.  

Some of the other great uses for your new hobby:

Putting on a resume under "hobbies" or  "interests"

Having it read some sad day when you are eulogized "knew the binary code"




Learning is never a mistake.


dago

lol....already have a gf and she has given up on me a long time ago..

to much work to break in a new one. dating is for the gambling nutters, i like to go where i know ill get some.

[nuchpatrick]

Even worse if you know useless TTL Logic..  ARGH!!:rolleyes:

[Nilsen]

Originally posted by nuchpatrick
Even worse if you know useless TTL Logic..  ARGH!!:rolleyes:

thats so 90's

binary is cool again....get with the progamme dork!

[nuchpatrick]

I hate binary too many O's and 1's!

[Samiam]

Originally posted by Nilsen
Knowing the fairly simple morsecode system i have taken it upon myself to learning the binary system

i have 12 letters  and "space" symbol (00100000) memorised now but i think the big problem is gonna start when i get to symbols.. i know its completly useless knowledge but its kinda fun to know

anyone else here know it?

Let's be clear here. There are no letter or symbols in binary. Binary is simply a way of representing numbers as powers of 2.

To get from binary to letters and symbols you need to introduce some standard encoding system, like ASCII - which uses an eight-bit byte to encode letters, numbers and symbols.

ASCII is what the PC was based on, but EBCDIC was the standard for mainframe computing.

Nowadays, what with internationalization being important and the ASCII character set being limited, multi-byte Unicode encoding is the main stream - at least at the application layer.

[Nilsen]

Originally posted by Samiam
Let's be clear here. There are no letter or symbols in binary. Binary is simply a way of representing numbers as powers of 2.

To get from binary to letters and symbols you need to introduce some standard encoding system, like ASCII - which uses an eight-bit byte to encode letters, numbers and symbols.

ASCII is what the PC was based on, but EBCDIC was the standard for mainframe computing.

Nowadays, what with internationalization being important and the ASCII character set being limited, multi-byte Unicode encoding is the main stream - at least at the application layer.

Im sure thats all true Mr. My reason for picking the binary system is just cause its very simple, yet hard to remember because its very abstract and will without a doubt trim my memory.  Im not gonna use it for anything other than that and maybe annoying my friends with knowing it

[FUNKED1]

Nilsen did you read Cryptonomicon or the Baroque Cycle?

[Nilsen]

Originally posted by FUNKED1
Nilsen did you read Cryptonomicon or the Baroque Cycle?

[JB73]

you know, if you know alot about binary and what it represents, it shouldnt be too hard to learn to "write" in it.

00000000 = 0
00000001 = 1
00001000 = 8
01000000 = 64

that stuff i know off the top of my head. give me a binary number and i can tell you it's numerical value.

as posted before, its all about the conversion though. using ASCII?

then just memorize the order of the charecter set.

memorize every 20th charecter, and "count" from there

you want charecter 162 well memorize that 160 is whatever then count up in charecters.

162 i beilieve = ¢

[Nilsen]

thx for the lesson JB73

[mietla]

Originally posted by FUNKED1
Nilsen did you read Cryptonomicon or the Baroque Cycle?

or do a division in Roman numerals

[Nilsen]

no, but i fell on my bike once and that really hurt. chipped 2 teeth and got myself 2 small scares in my face

[2bighorn]

Ahhh what.... Binary is soooo boring, besides, takes too much space.

Cool guys do hex 7ab530

[JB73]

1111 = F
0000 = 0
in between... if you dont know hey

796F 7520 616C 6C20 0073 7563 6B20

have fun!

saddest part is i did 3/4 of that in my head