[Dixielandjazz] Codes {was: RE: Can You Help This Lady?Fw: Your Post onSongbirds}

[Harry Callaghan]

I am once again transported back to my youth.

I remember pestering my mother to buy me Ovaltine powdered chocolate drink
mix, which she so graciosly did even though it was more expensive than the
Hershey's Syrup that she was accustomed to using.

I removed the label and inserted it in an envelope with perhaps something
like 25-cents (which was a hefty hunk of change in the late-40s) a piece of
paper showing my name and address, and mailed it off to get my very own
Captain Midnight secret code ring.

And what was the secret code?..1-26 signifying the letters of the alphabet.
Not a really difficult one to break.

Ahh.....sweet memories.

Tides
HC
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Jerry Gordon <jerrygordon at juno.com> wrote:

> Reminds me of the old line: "There are 10 kinds of people in this world:
> those who understand binary numbers and those who don't."
>
> Jerry
> Boycott shampoo - insist on real poo.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dixielandjazz-bounces at ml.islandnet.com
> [mailto:dixielandjazz-bounces at ml.islandnet.com] On Behalf Of
> andy.ling at quantel.com
> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 4:50 AM
> To: Jerry Gordon
> Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Can You Help This Lady?Fw: Your Post
> onSongbirds
>
> 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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