Re: lynx-dev (key) Hex-ASCII values. . . ?

[pAb-032871]

In "Re: lynx-dev (key) Hex-ASCII values. . . ?"
[31/May/2000 Wed 08:29:43]
Philip Webb wrote:

> 000531 pAb-032871 wrote:
> > I'm not sure how 343 and 0x157 turn into 0527. . .  Octal?
> > Klaus Weide wrote:
> >> leading 0 means octal in C.
> > Should be easy to drop the habit now [a bad one, I'll admit],
> > before it becomes second nature.

> > 0625 = 500 = 0x1F4. . .  Words to live by.
>    ^^^                     ^^^^^

> not quite so easy (smile): (dec) 500 = (hex) 1F4 = (oct) 764 ...

No, but the there's a leading ZER0  :-)  You would have loved
this: I almost wrote;

"and since Big Brother *was* English, 2 + 2 = F1VE"

right below it but chucked the line when that letter was getting
too long.  Should have started with smaller numbers, but I wanted
*words*, not bytes.


                    Patrick
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