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feeling old.... - Les Wright - 06-29-2007

I turned 43 on Wednesday and felt pretty good.

Then, in doing som SysRPL programming, I realized that that is 67 in hexadecimal.

I don't even want to think about dog years. Or binary. :)

Les


Re: feeling old.... - Gerson W. Barbosa - 06-29-2007

Hello Les,

Happy Birthday! - albeit a little late...

Quote:
I turned 43 on Wednesday and felt pretty good.

Then, in doing som SysRPL programming, I realized that that is 67 in hexadecimal.


I fear there's a little mistake here, as #67h = 6 * 16 + 7 = #103d, isn't it? Actually, somehow you have converted your age to base 6 :-)

Best regards,

Gerson.

P.S.: Will turn 46 next Jul/22. That's #2Eh, which doesn't make me look any younger... Anyway, I was able to run 2510 meters in 12 minutes this morning :-)

Edited: 29 June 2007, 12:35 p.m.


Re: feeling old.... - Jeff O. - 06-29-2007

Wouldn't you be (only) 2B in hex? I think you flipped your conversion, as if you were 67 in decimal, you'd be only 43 in hex.

Quote:
I don't even want to think about dog years.

When I turned 40, a "friend" gave me a shirt on which appeared a cartoonish drawing of a crumbling dog skelton and the message "In dog years, I'm dead." Not sure what that means, but sometimes I feel that way. At 43 you're still just a (quite alive) pup.


Re: feeling old.... - Jeff O. - 06-29-2007

At first I thought Les used base-6 also, but, of course he could not be 67 in base-6.



Re: feeling old.... - Peter Geiser - 06-29-2007

It is said that each year a dog lives compares to seven human years. So, a 7-year old dog has about the same age as a 56-year old human.
With 40 dog years, you'd be around 280, which is not likely achieved.

But back to the first post: congratulations Les! Let's be glad that we count in decimal, not hex. I hope you feel rather 43(oct)-ish...

Best regards
Peter


Re: feeling old.... - Les Wright - 06-29-2007

Actually my logic in saying I am 67 is this:

67 = 4*16 + 3

I am using the decimal digits in the hexadecimal system to give the 67 numeral.

I know I have the logic backwards, but I thought it was funny.

Les


Re: feeling old.... - Walter B - 06-29-2007

Happy birthday!

Quote:
I know I have the logic backwards, but I thought it was funny.

Oh yes, it was ;) Will become worse with age...


Re: feeling old.... - Woody Larkin - 06-29-2007

Hi,
A newer approximaton of a dog's age compared to a human's is as follows:
Age: 1st 2 years = 25 years; each additional year = 4 human years.

A 15 year old dog would be equivalent to a 77 year old person.

A 43 year old man would be equivalent to a 4 1/2 year old dog which is still in its prime.


Babbling - Palmer O. Hanson, Jr. - 06-29-2007

From the vantage point of decimal 78 this thread looks a lot like what we used to call "the babbling of babes in the woods".

But, Happy Birthday anyway.


Re: feeling old.... - db (martinez, ca.) - 06-30-2007

les; you're only 516 months old? post again when you are old enough to have something interesting to say.


Re: feeling old.... - Gerson W. Barbosa - 06-30-2007

Oops! :-)


Re: feeling old.... - Jean-Michel - 06-30-2007

Happy Birthday Les!
In fact, you're only 15708 days old, whereas I am 18328.419

Concerning sysRPL, I take notes
but I only know very few things about long reals, for instance
Rectangular-Polar at the address #2B498h
Polar-Rectangular -------------- #2B4C5h ( on a HP-48 )

Best regards,
JMB.




Re: feeling old.... - Paul Brogger - 07-02-2007

Even the first digit in 67 would be improper representing a value in base-six.

As we all know, when representing values in any base n, the value n appears as "10".

The numeral six ("6") shouldn't appear in any base-six value, just as the numeral eight ("8") doesn't appear in any octal representation, the numeral used for ten ("A"?) doesn't show in any decimal value, and the numeral that might be used for sixteen ("H"?) won't show in any hexadecimal value.

[End of pedantic rant/reminder.]

I (probably, all too predictably) remind folks at two oft-obsessed-over passages that:

    4010 = 2816, and
5010 = 3216

(I'm 55, which I might choose to represent as either 3716, or 678.)


Re: feeling old.... - Gerson W. Barbosa - 07-02-2007

Quote:
(I'm 55, which I might choose to represent as either 3716, or 678.)

In order to avoid more silly mistakes, I will refrain myself from representing my age in bases others than 10. However, using Mars as a reference makes me look younger (only 24.42 martian years) and lighter (only 64.46 pounds. Mars wouldn't make me any taller than 5' 8" though :-)


Re: feeling old.... - Jeff O. - 07-02-2007

Quote:
Even the first digit in 67 would be improper representing a value in base-six.

D'oh! So I guess Les is 111 in base-6. (He keeps getting older and older!)
Quote:
I (probably, all too predictably) remind folks at two oft-obsessed-over passages that:
    4010 = 2816, and
5010 = 3216

Conjecture - If humans had 16 fingers instead of only 10, we would we all feel so much younger. (Probably not, actually.)


Re: feeling old.... - Egan Ford - 07-02-2007

Quote:
Conjecture - If humans had 16 fingers instead of only 10, we would we all feel so much younger. (Probably not, actually.)

Two thumbs per hand would make thumbboarding the 71B much faster.


Re: feeling old.... - Walter B - 07-02-2007

Quote:
Conjecture - If humans had 16 fingers instead of only 10, we would we all feel so much younger.

No need to go so far. Remember Mayas in todays Guatemala, Belize and Yucatan had a base-20 system. That would cover every reasonable human age, e.g. me showing up as a real twen -- feeling twice as elastic immediately :-)

BTW: 16 in base 16 would be G, if it would exist. End of pedantic correction.


Re: feeling old.... - Dave Shaffer (Arizona) - 07-02-2007

"Mars wouldn't make me any taller than 5' 8" though"

Actually, depending on how you measure it, it would!

The meter was originally defined so that there were 10,000,000 meters from the equator to the pole (along the meridian through Paris - as opposed to those Brits, who preferred feet and yards and the Greenwich Meridian!). Since Mars is only about 60% as big (in diameter) as the Earth, a similarly-defined Martian meter would be 60% smaller than a terrestrial meter - so you would be 60% taller in Martian meters!!


Re: feeling old.... - Dave Shaffer (Arizona) - 07-02-2007

Oops - not "60% smaller" but 60% as large!! But, since 1/0.6 = 1.666, you would be more than 60% "taller."


Re: feeling old.... - Gerson W. Barbosa - 07-02-2007

Good point! Hadn't thought of this. Being 2.88 Martian meters tall looks pretty good to me :-)


Re: feeling old.... - Paul Brogger - 07-02-2007

Quote:
16 in base 16 would be G

Ouch! I'll stuff my pedantic troll back in his cave, and try to keep him there for a while . . .


Re: feeling old.... - Palmer O. Hanson, Jr. - 07-02-2007

You wrote:

Quote:
Even the first digit in 67 would be improper representing a value in base-six.

Way back when, when I was first introduced to this stuff, we wouldn't have restricted the definition of a base six number as you do. We recognized that if the writer said that 67 was a base six number then the number was equal to decimal 43. We might have noted that the writer hadn't managed to perform all of the "carries" that were available.

When we used octal or hexadecimal representation as a shorthand for the ones and zeroes we recognized that the representation wouldn't have any digits greater than one less than the base. But, that's not really tied to the definition of base as I remember it.




Re: feeling old.... - Gerson W. Barbosa - 07-02-2007

In fact, at least the first digit in 67 is not improper in this base-6 system:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bijective_numeration

Back to the usual definition of base, this Q&D HP-33s program might help me convert decimal numbers (up to 215) to base six correctly:

LBL N
ENTER
ENTER
6
INT/
x<>y
6
Rmdr
x<>y
ENTER
ENTER
6
Rmdr
x<>y
6
INT/
100
*
x<>y
10
*
+
+
RTN

43 XEQ N -> 111

the writer :-)