"no" banana to Lemmy [email protected] • 4 months agoOk, some nerd please explain the switches on this IRL calculator applemmy.worldimagemessage-square94fedilinkarrow-up1327
arrow-up1327imageOk, some nerd please explain the switches on this IRL calculator applemmy.world"no" banana to Lemmy [email protected] • 4 months agomessage-square94fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink8•4 months agoF is 15, so that’d be weird for hex, and I’ve never seen base 4 or 6 used for anything, base 8 is common for some things but missing here.
minus-squarezarp86linkfedilink4•4 months agoIt kind of makes sense in that 15 is the last single digit in hex.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•edit-24 months agoI think some computers have been known to work in base 6. Or maybe I’m just confusing it with them using 6 bits. Probably the latter.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•edit-24 months ago6 bits per digit, 12 bit words. Octal (8) number system. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-8
F is 15, so that’d be weird for hex, and I’ve never seen base 4 or 6 used for anything, base 8 is common for some things but missing here.
It kind of makes sense in that 15 is the last single digit in hex.
I think some computers have been known to work in base 6. Or maybe I’m just confusing it with them using 6 bits. Probably the latter.
6 bits per digit, 12 bit words. Octal (8) number system.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-8