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To: JRandomFreeper; Squawk 8888

I’ll bite, why base 8?


237 posted on 11/05/2012 9:08:17 PM PST by null and void (Day 1385 of the Obama hostage crisis - Barack Hussein Obama an enemy BOTH foreign AND domestic)
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To: null and void

Base 8 is the easiest way to translate to/from binary; each digit represents three bits. The four-digit transponder codes for aircraft are actually 12-bit numbers, which is why only the digits 0-7 are used.


250 posted on 11/05/2012 11:15:18 PM PST by Squawk 8888 (True North- Strong Leader, Strong Dollar, Strong and Free!)
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