[aprssig] A funny packet story/joke (The KISS guys will get it)

[Tad Burnett]

And 8000 < 7FFF (sometimes) ???

Tad Burnett wrote:

> Then 377 = 255 = FF ???
>
> Curt Mills wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Tad Burnett wrote:
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>>>What is "HEX" anyway ???  Some sort of base 6 number system ???
>>>    
>>>
>>
>>Hexadecimal.  Base-16 number system.  Goes from 00 to FF for a byte,
>>where 00 represents decimal 0, FF represents decimal 255.  In C-code
>>we represent those numbers as 0x00 and 0xff.
>>
>>The number system goes 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F 10 11 12...
>>
>>Computer science people live by hexadecimal, at least if they do
>>embedded programming.  Of course they used to use octal, where you
>>counted like this:
>>
>>    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 20...
>>
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