How do you pronounce hexadecimal values? (0xblahblah)
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0x1A2B = Oh ex one A two B.
[QUOTE=DevBug;29896369]'oh' x 00000000[/QUOTE]
oh x oh oh oh oh oh oh
[QUOTE=Soda;29908281]why would you extend any syntax like that to real life.
do you suffix your speech with a semicolon?
if you need to give someone a hex value in context they probably already know it's going to be a hex value so you'd just read it off. otherwise you'd tell them in some other manner. only a total tool would say "0x<value>."
"hey guys bool what's up semicolon??"[/QUOTE]
The hell are you talking about?
[QUOTE=iPope;29914045]I usually never have to use hexadecimal in the real world. But it was hilarious when one of the "cool kids" at my school learnt to talk in hexadecimal. He couldn't work out why I kept laughing at him, it was so sad.[/QUOTE]
What do you mean, talk in hex? You mean he said everything a letter at a time as a series of ascii codes?
Yes that is pretty moronic, in fact I find it difficult to believe. If he was doing that, my guess is that he was just saying gibberish.
[editline]19th May 2011[/editline]
I find it annoying when people say "talking in binary/hex". If I said, "I know how to talk in numbers", I'd sound like a moron. But using the magical base 2 or 16, it suddenly becomes something amazing.
If there was a thread in FT called "ITT: We all talk in a basic substitution cipher" it would sound stupid (stupider than normal threads in there). Call it "ITT: We all talk in binary" and people are rushing of to find an ascii converter.
I read each digit normally and add "in hex" afterwards if it's ambiguous, i.e. a number with no A-F digits.
[QUOTE=esalaka;29912077]
I always thought I was one.[/QUOTE]
nice homestuck avatar
[quote] You ask somebody for a value from their computer, he replies "12345".
Is that decimal or hex?[/quote]you'd obviously be talking to the person in a context where you'd previously understand if the value was hexadecimal or another base, and this is assisted by the idea that there is rarely a use for large numbers like that in decimal.
[quote=icedshot]Slight discrepancy there, kind of necessary to say "0x" if it came about in a conversation[/quote]
uh nope. anyone related to computer programming would understand that colors can be represented in several ways, the most common being r/g/b and hexadecimal.
saying "it's 0x99" or "it's 99 in hex" doesn't make what you said any more clear. 99 isn't a color value wtc??
if they said 000099 or "0 0 and 99" it'd be obvious without mentioning hex.
[quote=icedshot]And seeing as this is a forum of computer programmers, odds are computer programming will crop up in your conversations with people irl[/quote]
yeah maybe not facepunch-tier programmers but anyone remotely competent in programming I've talked to in real life is able to infer if a number is a hex value via context(there is literally no situation where this cannot be done.)
[QUOTE=Chrisaster;29927057]I read each digit normally and add "in hex" afterwards if it's ambiguous, i.e. a number with no A-F digits.[/QUOTE]
this is proper
Soda, what are you trying to prove? You come in the thread acting like everyone except you is stupid.
I mean really.
[quote]yeah maybe not facepunch-tier programmers but anyone remotely competent in programming I've talked to in real life is able to infer if a number is a hex value via context(there is literally no situation where this cannot be done.)[/quote]
Is that really neccessary?
Even if you're the most competant programmer in the world (which I've seen no evidence of) you are obviously lacking in basic social interaction skills if you think it's ok to act like this.
[QUOTE=Soda;29927202]
uh nope. anyone related to computer programming would understand that colors can be represented in several ways, the most common being r/g/b and hexadecimal.
saying "it's 0x99" or "it's 99 in hex" doesn't make what you said any more clear. 99 isn't a color value wtc??
if they said 000099 or "0 0 and 99" it'd be obvious without mentioning hex.
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No, most often you represent colours (the green channel lets say) using a value between 0 and 255, OR with a value between 0x0 and 0xFF. Its not clear at all in conversation when you are describing the colour component of a pixel, that you mean 99 in hex, or 99 in decimal
See, this happened to me when i was explaining how my planetary generation worked to one of my friends. When you are talking about the colours for the colour banding, it becomes necessary to point out if its in hex or decimal
[QUOTE=st0rmforce;29925914]What do you mean, talk in hex? You mean he said everything a letter at a time as a series of ascii codes?
Yes that is pretty moronic, in fact I find it difficult to believe. If he was doing that, my guess is that he was just saying gibberish.
[editline]19th May 2011[/editline]
I find it annoying when people say "talking in binary/hex". If I said, "I know how to talk in numbers", I'd sound like a moron. But using the magical base 2 or 16, it suddenly becomes something amazing.
If there was a thread in FT called "ITT: We all talk in a basic substitution cipher" it would sound stupid (stupider than normal threads in there). Call it "ITT: We all talk in binary" and people are rushing of to find an ascii converter.[/QUOTE]
He literally used to say things to be people in hex, as in each letter was it's hexadecimal equivalent, he also used to do it on facebook as well.
[QUOTE=Icedshot;29928119]No, most often you represent colours (the green channel lets say) using a value between 0 and 255, OR with a value between 0x0 and 0xFF. Its not clear at all in conversation when you are describing the colour component of a pixel, that you mean 99 in hex, or 99 in decimal
See, this happened to me when i was explaining how my planetary generation worked to one of my friends. When you are talking about the colours for the colour banding, it becomes necessary to point out if its in hex or decimal[/QUOTE]
Don't try explaining things to soda. He's already decided that you are wrong, so there's no point in going any further.
Soda:
Argumented Reality Generator
[QUOTE=Map in a box;29933917]Soda:
Argumented Reality Generator[/QUOTE]
Automated Troll methinks
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