I recommend you look up the Tom Lehrer song "New Math" on the Net. He does this complicated long addition problem for the audience, then notes that the book calls for the answer in "base 8" (octal, to those old farts amoung us). He then declares that it's easy; base 8 is just like base 10 -- if you're missing two fingers.
Well, they're both correct, just in different ways. :)
And I'm glad you had such an activity-filled birthday -- sounds much more exciting than mine, which consisted of sleep, food, and playing far too many video games.
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Happy Happy to ya Batty. I'll pop open a bottle of Sheaf Stout and watch an old Batman re-run on the toob in yer honor.
CYa!
Mako
2B Shakespearian Zzyzxian
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Best wishes.
===|==============/ Level Head
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you do know the answer.
the answer is YES.
(smiles happily and wombles off singing "Tempus Fugit" sotto voce)
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Answers are highly overrated - besides, I find that as I get older, the less I seem to know (or at least I realize more and more how little I know).
2A years old
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8)
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... Oh, wait, I get it; you're switching bases because you don't think anyone could possibly be so geeky as to think in base 16. ];=8)
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And I'm glad you had such an activity-filled birthday -- sounds much more exciting than mine, which consisted of sleep, food, and playing far too many video games.
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