On Sun, 22 Dec 1996, Darklord wrote: > Yea.. its done.. and im happy to say.. i learned something. > For some reason.. i am dealing in octal. I do not understand it.. but > i have generated a character map and do not receive any bit with a code > of over 7. Also.. i have only been able to create a map from 10-172 OCD Octal works like this. The highest number in any place can be 7. I assume you all know binary so you can do bitvectors..:) Its a base 8 system. The places go like this: 1's 8's 16's 32's 64's etc To convert an octal number to decimal you multiply the number in the place by the places value. 234 = 2 x 1 + 3 x 8 + 4 x 16 = uhh no calculator. figure it out. To convert to binary is very simple. 3 bits of binary equal each bit of octal. 327 = 3 2 7 011 010 111 = 011010111 110101000 = 110 101 000 6 5 0 = 650 decimal: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 octal : 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 20 Since 16 is composed of two eights... its 20 since the second place is the eights colum. Perhaps my fit of boredom will help people understand octal. :) Hex is EXACTLY the same except the places are 1, 16, 32, 64 .. and the highest number in a place is F or 15. Later ----- ________________________________________________________________ .--Balif@Nacs.Net - LaME Magazine http://www.nacs.net/~balif/lame. |--Loozers Achieving Mindboggling Eleetness (whurrrrrrrd)--------| .________________________________________________________________. -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.3a mQBtAzKjS2EAAAEDAMzihJ3fJ5xz2KtzH31Bwi5cIcFVTRiSYK2yvSXq3v1Qs7ra HtQuCsSMEnrmwAFhH16THW02uKGH1qOuHHX1dCYI8ZrybspIOwno2+29MiRSX7uh VFyRA8kjAvcJyTy69QAFEbQcQnJpYW4gSm9uZXMgPGJhbGlmQG5hY3MubmV0PokA dQMFEDKjS2EjAvcJyTy69QEBGYcC/3TFT8qgU/qZLoQMkYm4hVoxWdwTLuEVtqAg 87NjShcCIUR5eA6t0MpjHD4xkFTRl6nqC3adc3d1a/QOxBcWr9YUOcaRQz8OhZL7 3RFqJrgpku00CcI7WE6Cq+w7U7Vv7A== =zM09 -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | | http://cspo.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list_faq.html | +-----------------------------------------------------------+
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