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

[Robert Ringwald]

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.



I now have a headache...  

--Bob (What's that throbbing?" Ringwald