[BauhausBold]

As a graphic designer I would love to stop converting fractions to decimals and the other way around. Luckily the ruler I use has fractions on it. Its such a pain to find 23/32"

All the good printing presses are metric as well...

 

[amphead]

Hehe

Don't forget that the Egyptian pyramids were built with "cubits" and are accurate to within a couple millimeters.

 

[milkweg]

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Originally Posted by V-Duh /img/forum/go_quote.gif 1. EVERYONE'S computers effectively report values in base-10, not some weird quasi-base-12 system.

That's what it reports in but is programmed in base 16. Hexadecimal math is used in computer programming which is base 16. They do that to cut down on the length of the code.

 

[milkweg]

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Originally Posted by BauhausBold /img/forum/go_quote.gif As a graphic designer I would love to stop converting fractions to decimals and the other way around. Luckily the ruler I use has fractions on it. Its such a pain to find 23/32" All the good printing presses are metric as well...

I used to work on a 5 color Heidelburg and the sheet size was in inches and blanket and packing plate paper thickness was in thousands of an inch. We only used metric for ink mixing. That was some years ago though.

 

[linuxworks]

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Originally Posted by milkweg /img/forum/go_quote.gif That's what it reports in but is programmed in base 16. Hexadecimal math is used in computer programming which is base 16. They do that to cut down on the length of the code.

base-16?

I thought digital computers worked at the base-2 binary level.

hex is just a 'convenient grouping' for us humans. but drawing boundaries at the bit level varies. sometimes you use IEEE floating point (not hex, certainly!) and sometimes 'int' and sometimes 'long int' and so on.

to say computers 'work in hex' is pretty misleading.

 

[BauhausBold]

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Originally Posted by milkweg /img/forum/go_quote.gif I used to work on a 5 color Heidelburg and the sheet size was in inches and blanket and packing plate paper thickness was in thousands of an inch. We only used metric for ink mixing. That was some years ago though.

They are still in inches....... Not that big of a deal imo.

 

[majkel]

I would also like the UK and Australia to switch to the right hand side traffic.

 

[mark_h]

Please

 

[milkweg]

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Originally Posted by linuxworks /img/forum/go_quote.gif base-16? I thought digital computers worked at the base-2 binary level. hex is just a 'convenient grouping' for us humans. but drawing boundaries at the bit level varies. sometimes you use IEEE floating point (not hex, certainly!) and sometimes 'int' and sometimes 'long int' and so on. to say computers 'work in hex' is pretty misleading.

I said, "computer programming" and not computers, big difference and I didn't mislead at all. You just misunderstood what I meant. Machine language is binary (o and 1) but it gets converted to hex because it is a lot shorter to work with. That's why if you look inside a binary file with an editor the editor is called a hex editor.

 

[milkweg]

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Originally Posted by majkel /img/forum/go_quote.gif I would also like the UK and Australia to switch to the right hand side traffic.

Blame the Romans for that, but I agree with you.

 

[milkweg]

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Originally Posted by BauhausBold /img/forum/go_quote.gif They are still in inches....... Not that big of a deal imo.

Yea, had to be because paper manufacturers always use imperial, even in Canada.