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RE: Hex Fun

Koen Verbeeck — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:13:35 GMT

Great question, thanks!

RE: Hex Fun

Evil Kraig F — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:17:24 GMT

[quote][b]Steve Jones - SSC Editor (1/4/2012)[/b][hr]It should be 12 Monkeys - [url]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114746/[/url][/quote]Isn't that dodecagibbon? Or is that Dodecachimpie?@Tom: ROFL. :cool:

RE: Hex Fun

Steve Jones - SSC Editor — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:02:32 GMT

It should be 12 Monkeys - [url]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114746/[/url]

RE: Hex Fun

Paul White — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:47:31 GMT

[quote][b]Steve Jones - SSC Editor (1/4/2012)[/b][hr]I'm not sure the explanation is more clear than the word. Or maybe it's just my eyes that glazed over :w00t:[/quote]I had rather hoped the explanation was going to be that it was a corruption of that common word meaning 'six monkeys' - hexagibbon.

RE: Hex Fun

Steve Jones - SSC Editor — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:15:19 GMT

I'm not sure the explanation is more clear than the word. Or maybe it's just my eyes that glazed over :w00t:

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L' Eomot Inversé — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 08:02:36 GMT

[quote][b]honza.mf (1/4/2012)[/b][hr]I appreciate your explanation.Please, can you explain the relative term [i]hexadecibon[/i]? Thank you very much.[/quote]I haven't a clue, but I won't refrain from suggesting that it is perhaps a misinterpretation by modern OCR software of the word hexadecision printed in one of the fonts commonly used until recently (well, up to the late 18th century, anyway), in which lower case 's' followed by lower case 'i' is often misread (by the OCR software) as a space followed by upper case 'B' (and when not followed by 'i' lower case 's' may be misread as lower case 'f'). For examples of this try googling "Les contradictions qu il y avoit entre la déci Bon du Concile national de Paris & celle du Concile assemblé par les Légats du sape à Lyon" and observe that while google thinks it's "déci Bon" the book the link to google books takes you to text which is clearly "décision"; or for an English example (also using google's OCR, which is actually better than that used by many academic institutions despite making this error pretty consistently) try googling "acquiesced in the deci- Bon of providence in the fatal contest between the houses". Hexadecision of course must be the act of rendering null and void (or perhaps just pointless) by magical means the determination of some body or council supposedly empowered to make that determination.Alternatively, it may be a spell cast by the Mauritius government to improve the island's balance of payments (the spell is embodied at decibon.free.fr). Or perhaps a hex cast upon their efforts by an enemy?Or, since Decibon is a proper name used both in France and in Sweden (perhaps French immigrants?) hexadecibon may be something to do with using magic to mess up members of the Decibon clan; since you suggested "hexadecibon" was a "relative term", maybe it could be the action of some member of the clan trying to mess up one (or more) of his or her (or its) relatives?All the above suggested interpretations of hexadecibon are offered without any warranty as to accuracy or even as to credibility. The remarks on OCR errors with certain old fonts are however 100% genuine.

RE: Hex Fun

honza.mf — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 05:13:01 GMT

[quote][b]L' Eomot Inversé (1/4/2012)[/b][hr][quote][b]Evil Kraig F (1/3/2012)[/b][hr]What's this Exademon... err... Hexawitch... err.. Hexademinali stuff?[/quote]It's not stuff because it's a verb not a noun. To hexadecimal is to cast a cantrip on a real number, attacking it at one of the digits after the decimal point. This usually causes the poor benighted number to trip (but not always, since it's a cantrip not a musttrip) resulting in an unpleasant flattening of part of its anatomy when it hits the ground (such flattening is known amongst numerate spell-casters as a rounding error).[/quote]I appreciate your explanation.Please, can you explain the relative term [i]hexadecibon[/i]? Thank you very much.

RE: Hex Fun

L' Eomot Inversé — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 04:58:35 GMT

[quote][b]Evil Kraig F (1/3/2012)[/b][hr]What's this Exademon... err... Hexawitch... err.. Hexademinali stuff?[/quote]It's not stuff because it's a verb not a noun. To hexadecimal is to cast a cantrip on a real number, attacking it at one of the digits after the decimal point. This usually causes the poor benighted number to trip (but not always, since it's a cantrip not a musttrip) resulting in an unpleasant flattening of part of its anatomy when it hits the ground (such flattening is known amongst numerate spell-casters as a rounding error).

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Evil Kraig F — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:40:47 GMT

What's this Exademon... err... Hexawitch... err.. Hexademinali stuff?

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OzYbOi d(-_-)b — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 09:53:07 GMT

tks & Happy New Year!

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Britt Cluff — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 05:25:10 GMT

I took a guess and got it right. Thanks for the question.

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Anipaul — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 03:19:37 GMT

Happy New Year guys...

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SQLRNNR — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 20:41:15 GMT

Happy New Year all!

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Revenant — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 19:39:56 GMT

I had an unfair advantage on this one: I was 16 years a system programmer on IBM /360. Converting a hex number into decimal brought some fond memories. (I was young and I thought I knew it all.)

RE: Hex Fun

L' Eomot Inversé — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 10:48:47 GMT

Fun, but maybe a bit too easy, as 2000 is 125*16 it's obvious that the base 16 string for 2011 ends in B and only one of the four options ended in B.Probably most of us are used to hex (and octal and binary) notations - it would have been a bit more challenging to try a different base (say base 9 or base 11).

RE: Hex Fun

bitbucket-25253 — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 10:47:00 GMT

Get it in your head .. hmm I had to take off my shoes and socks so I could continue counting on both my fingers and toes ... Oh well

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SqlMel — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 05:12:47 GMT

I'm impressed that I actually was able to get this in my head :)Happy New Year, everybody!

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honza.mf — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 04:43:22 GMT

Thank You, nice one.Took a while, but it was easy. 2011%16 > 1, there was just one answer.Now I wait three weeks for the beginning of the year of dragon.

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sharath.chalamgari — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 02:55:12 GMT

Happy New year ;-)

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Paul White — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 19:06:58 GMT

Happy 1us (2012 in base-32).

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Stuart Davies — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 06:27:23 GMT

Took a while to get there - but got it right. Happy 7DC to all

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george sibbald — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 05:34:30 GMT

thanks for the 0x007 points steve - happy new year. :-)

Hex Fun

Steve Jones - SSC Editor — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 01:38:16 GMT

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