On Fri, 2011-12-23 at 09:55 +0000, Jack Knight wrote:
> Well Jim, you've only got 1 year to go before you can (re)adopt the
> practice I have done - i.e. quoting your rapidly increasing age in
> Hex; 40 has a nice ring to it don't you think? ;^)=
I've long since adopted a mathematical system.
Take an age in decimal, if it's odd, subtract a one and hold on to it.
Divide the remainder by two to get the a number base.
Your age is now 20 or 21 depending on whether you add back a subtracted
one.
So I'm 21 right now, next year I'll be twenty again, but next year the
number base will be thirty (or 0x1E if I _really_ want to confuse :-)
Of course, once you're comfortable with the general principle, you can
overlook the maths. Who needs it .. trust me, I'm 21, really!
ATB,
Gordon.
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