To: sionnsar; Monkey Face; Dead Corpse; Darksheare; Professional Engineer
"Aiiiee. Every numbering system I know except the Roman one collapses if you pull out the Zeroes." Especially binary. What can one do?
510 posted on
08/08/2009 8:17:29 PM PDT by
NicknamedBob
(Oh well. Forewarned is forearmed. I'm up to my elbows in forearms.)
To: NicknamedBob; Dead Corpse; Darksheare; Professional Engineer
"Aiiiee. Every numbering system I know except the Roman one collapses if you pull out the Zeroes."
Especially binary. What can one do? 1s and NULLs, obviously.
Alternatively 1s alone, but this gets "wordy" with large numbers. Not sure about delimiters, though...
517 posted on
08/08/2009 8:42:05 PM PDT by
sionnsar
(IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|Neda Agha-Soltan - victim of murdering regime)
To: NicknamedBob; sionnsar
Leave the zeros alone. They aren’t hurting anything.
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