To: Haru Hara Haruko
What? Base 8 numbers fits perfectly. 1 digit is exactly 1 nibble, or 4-bits. So all 4 base 8 digits would be a 16-bit number.
242 posted on
06/03/2005 8:33:32 AM PDT by
xmm0
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To: xmm0
So, as a result, the Canadian airplane industry became better known for building go-anywhere prop planes named after animals...Beavers, Otters, and Caribou. :) Interesting that Canada decided to name it's aircraft after animals THAT DON"T FLY!!!!! :)
Check that last - there have been some reports of flying Beavers, but none in daylight.
251 posted on
06/03/2005 8:39:20 AM PDT by
Jambe
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To: xmm0
Base eight takes three bits to encode.
To: xmm0
What? Base 8 numbers fits perfectly. 1 digit is exactly 1 nibble, or 4-bits. So all 4 base 8 digits would be a 16-bit number. No, that is why hexadecimal is more prevalent now. 4 bits is 0 through F. A 16 bit number can be expressed in four hex digits.
Octal numbers are 3 bits. Hence octal 4 digits for squawk codes yields only 4,096 codes, not 10,000.
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