How Many Can Read Hex? You and the Dead Included

[Anttech]

Question;

If you and dead people can read hex, how many people can read hex?

 

[chroot]

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- Warren

 

[Anttech]

Originally posted by chroot
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- Warren

Nope ;)

 

[chroot]

Are you sure?

- Warren

 

[Anttech]

yep... read again,

 

[Anttech]

ahh wait a min... :)

 

[Anttech]

you almost got it...read again...

 

[chroot]

Heh, I'm dumb. Somehow I thought I pressed the 1 on my caculator, but I guess I didn't?

157256_8

- Warren

 

[Anttech]

hehe well done,

To be honest you are the quickest to get this I have seen, so i would say Dumb :)

 

[chroot]

Heh, just the other day I used 0xDEADBEEF as a boundary identifier in a program... that one's classic, man.

- Warren

 

[Anttech]

lol... hehe very funny

 

[enigma]

Uh.

I don't get it.

 

[NateTG]

It's based on hexidecimal numbers
0-F are digits so
0xDEAD=13*4096+14*256+10*16+13 base 10
so there are 0xDEAD+1 or 57006 people that can read hex.

Of course, it would be tougher if you got some B!FF in there:

If Biff and Dead people can read hex. How many people can read hex?

Now we have 0x1FB1FF + 0xDEAD people.

If I was feeling creative, I could probably concoct something even worse.

 

[chroot]

But "I" is not a valid hexadecimal numeral...

- Warren