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To: NicknamedBob; Monkey Face; Tax-chick
Maybe it’s binary.
Eight, four, and two equal room fourteen.

That's true, but if it's in trinary it's 39 decimal.

But room "numbers" tend not to be really numbers at all, they're often names conveying location information. For example, if Room "101" is on the first floor, you might expect to find Room "201" on the second floor (or in another building, or in unusual situations on the 20th floor). And you would normally expect to find Room "202A" very close to Room "201" and not "numbered" 8234 (mentally 202A in base-sixteen) decimal.

But hey, I'm showing off stuff that took me decades to learn... *\;-)

1,631 posted on 07/28/2008 5:20:39 PM PDT by sionnsar (Impeach Obama |Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
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To: sionnsar

It’s a one-story building.


1,632 posted on 07/28/2008 5:22:53 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Tax-chick's House of Herpets. We're basking - how about you?)
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To: Tax-chick; sionnsar
1110

[Obie Wankel Noobie, ominously] That's no room...

...later, back on Earth...

Try Building E.

1,655 posted on 07/29/2008 12:00:28 AM PDT by HKMk23
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