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<blockquote data-quote="lavacarancher" data-source="post: 1192570" data-attributes="member: 9198"><p>I suppose if it weren't for the fact I spent all of my working career in engineering (electrical) I probably would feel the same as some of you. Fact is metric number system is much more simple than our system. It's the conversion from one to another that screws things up. Forty years ago if we would have gone all metric like it was proposed we wouldn't be having this conversation today.</p><p></p><p>I can't say I was a straight A student in math but I did alright. Back then I could't understand where calculus, trig, algebra and geometry would be used in the real world but little did I know. Even now that I'm retired and piddle in woodworking I still have an occasion to use those maths almost daily. </p><p></p><p>This isn't math but it is another number system. The groups of eight bits in the first line decode into a greeting for you. The second line means the same thing but is arranged in Hexadecimal.</p><p></p><p>01101000 01100001 01110000 01110000 01111001 00100000 01101000 01101111 01101100 01101001 01100100 01100001 01111001 01110011 BIN</p><p></p><p> 68 61 70 70 79 20 68 6F 6C 69 64 61 79 73 HEX</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lavacarancher, post: 1192570, member: 9198"] I suppose if it weren't for the fact I spent all of my working career in engineering (electrical) I probably would feel the same as some of you. Fact is metric number system is much more simple than our system. It's the conversion from one to another that screws things up. Forty years ago if we would have gone all metric like it was proposed we wouldn't be having this conversation today. I can't say I was a straight A student in math but I did alright. Back then I could't understand where calculus, trig, algebra and geometry would be used in the real world but little did I know. Even now that I'm retired and piddle in woodworking I still have an occasion to use those maths almost daily. This isn't math but it is another number system. The groups of eight bits in the first line decode into a greeting for you. The second line means the same thing but is arranged in Hexadecimal. 01101000 01100001 01110000 01110000 01111001 00100000 01101000 01101111 01101100 01101001 01100100 01100001 01111001 01110011 BIN 68 61 70 70 79 20 68 6F 6C 69 64 61 79 73 HEX [/QUOTE]
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