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DEAE. I understand hex, but man was not made to think in base 16. Now I am sad and need a nap.
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Ohhh I had to read the frase like three times to understand it was a riddle. I need to fucking get used to read tags... I get why DEAD+1=DEAE. But is there actually people that learn the powers of 16?
They can be learnt by heart until 65536, but I can't think why someone would go further. I mean, in binary you can just keep multiplying by two, but to multiply 65536 by 16 just to get to the power of 16 I haven't memorised? I don't want to make my brain kill itself. -
Jokes like that are the reason why my first android app project was a base converter.... you can translate everything from any base between 2 and 36 to any other base in that range
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@needToRoll I once tried to make a base ~100 translator. I gave up when I realized that what I was doing was very nerdy, even by my standards, and I sobered up. Also it would not work universally and that made me sad.
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@projektaquarius well the algorithm itself is is pretty simple the only question is what to use to represent values grater than 36 because the alphabet is out of elements
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@needToRoll yeah that was the issue I have. Representing the higher numbers. This was years ago too so I may not have been able to figure out the algo.
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Once it was very interesting to me, but now the need has disappeared as much as possible even to read such codes not only for work
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In general, you can learn Latin along with the hex code, then it will be a perfect combination
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