Posted on 01/30/2009 8:46:14 AM PST by TaraP
You are right ... the actual number is 600 + 60 + 6 But if they make a tattooed bar code or implant it into a chip .. i suspect it will be in the form of 6-6-6 hence my thinking 0110 0110 0110
BTW, the nerd factor of this thread is through the ROOF with the binary code stuff. too funny...
Hexidecimal is a "people" respresentation of binary. It has absolutely nothing to do with chip design.
true in form 0110011001100110 is 1638 if taken literally...
That one has a decimal equivalent of 26214.
...but after 30 years of chip design...
Chip design has no affect on either the decimal, hexidecimal, or binary number systems. It also has no affect on their use in software or hardware.
666 ?!
Well, since I won’t be here then, y’all need to find someone to fix this. It seems that if someone did not want to be tracked nowadays, then they wouldn’t carry around a personal device all the time, that can be tracked.
They’ll be earing tin foil helmets...
That is patently not true. Math has never been related to "how you look at it".
By the way, ascii "666" is 0011 0110 0011 0110 0011 0110 when written in binary, or 36 36 36 in hexidecimal. Hexidecimal is a shorthand notation for binary.
I’m guessing that when the person is dead, these parts that are removed might not work the same as when the person was alive.
Also, "in two or three generations", we could all be required by law to carry nuclear weapons in our automobiles; we could be required to wear purple underwear; and we could all be required to have sex with strangers and their dogs.
It's all very well to say "could." Lots of things "could" happen. I would be willing to bet that the fellow who issued this warning is almost certainly a fellow who's trying to sell a book.
But mostly it will be used to snoop into the whereabouts of ordinary citizens every minute of the day.
Yes, they have. Whose side do you think they are on?
I’m not talking ascii nor am I talking math. How many chip design teams have you been on ? ... as I mentioned ... I was thinking in 4 char binary slices known as bytes ... 0110 = 6. That is how various media transmission formats view it ... ever here of things like mbytes or gbytes.
So technically 6 could be represented as 00000110 for 8 bit. We in the chip design industry usually use 4 bit sequences ... sometimes in pairs to make 8 bits.
A 4-bit section is a Nyble, not a Byte (which is 8-bits).
Re post 53
Each hex char is defined by 4 bits (which is what I was thinking) ... HEX pairs by bytes ... if the byte is 8 char. Granted 4 bits is a nibble (1/2 a byte) but in the chip 4 bit sequences are most commonly used followed by 8 bit HEX pairs.
A four bit slice is called a "nibble". The coding system you are attempting to use is called BCD, or "binary coded decimal". Even in BCD, the 0110 0110 0110 would have to be translated to ASCII or EBCDIC for output to a printing device. Taken as a binary value spaced out for readability, it simply does not have the numeric value of 666 decimal. To have the decimal value 666, the BCD would need special treatment in software or on a machine featuring BCD support. (Not many of those.)
Some processors do arithmetic in BCD, but not so much now as in the 1960s and 1970s.
Switches are often encoded in BCD, but those settings are generally translated to straight numeric early in the handling process merely to make the value more compact and directly usable for arithmetic.
How many chip design teams have you been on ?
It is obvious that you haven't been on any. I started my hardware/software career in 1967. I have assembler language experience with the following machines: IBM 1130, IBM 360/370, Univac 1108, CDC 7600, CDC 8600, Hewlett Packard 2116, SEL 810, SEL 840, Data General Nova, PDP 8, PDP 11, Alpha II, Alpha LSI 2, Alpha LSI 4, Intel 4004, 8008, 8080, Zilog Z8, Z80, Motorola 6800, 6809, 68000, 68010, 68020, 68040, 68332, many Microchip PICs, several Atmel AVR & ATMEGAs. I must not forget the many flavors of ARMs and MIPs processors, or the MPCs. Gee, I also worked intimately with the Intel 8086, 8088, 80186, 80286, 80386, 80486, and 80586. (Real and protected mode.) There are more.
I have designed hardware using most of the above, and have written the software as well. I am still employed doing this, and I am currently designing the hardware and software for a cyclic stress test machine and an device to calibrate the hydraulics and air systems on dynamite drills. The applications range from Skylab data reduction to system calibrators for kidney dialysis machines, with various data acquisition and control systems and loggers all along the way. I've provided interfaces for analog to digital converters, disk drives, tape drives, telephone cross point switches, display devices, input devices of every sort, as well as motor controls.
I have written DOS and real time operating systems, file systems, and communications protocols. I have done printer drivers, graphics display drivers, and character CRT drivers.
In short, you are not arguing with a novice. Just relax and try to learn something.
Generally called a "bit slice" in the chip industry.
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