[Dixielandjazz] Can You Help This Lady?Fw: Your Post onSongbirds

[andy.ling at quantel.com]

Bob Smith wrote on 31/01/2011 21:48:36:

> And the decimal code for ABBA is 43962, so which groups have the decimal 

> codes 4300 and 44252 ?
> 

The two bands are 10CC and ACDC

For those the want an explanation. It is all to do with arithmetic with
different bases. Our decimal system is base 10. The one with letters in
is called hexadecimal and is base 16. For numbers above 9,you use the
letters a, b, c, d, e, & f

If you run the calculator in Windows (don't know if there is one on a Mac)
Then click on the view menu and select scientific, you will get a row
of buttons that let you select bin, oct, dec and hex. Select dec, type
in one of the numbers Bob gave and select hex. You'll get one of the
two band names.

It's one of those things that if you know, it's trivial, if you don't
you probably don't want to know.

Regards

Andy Ling



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