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

[Harry Callaghan]

Andy:

Thank you for clarifying that for all of us............no offense intended,
but I think I would opt for the latter.

And I started all this with my mention of ABBA?...........not the first time
I put my foot in my mouth (and as everyone here knows, it's not about to be
my last)

HC

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 3:49 AM, <andy.ling at quantel.com> wrote:

> 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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