Fun facts!!!

[dutch_619]

A sharp (#) is a half step in music notation, and ++ means increment by one, so C# is C plus one and a half

Ternary is base three notation so
1=1
2=2
3=10

[Jam0864]

A sharp (#) is a half step in music notation, and ++ means increment by one, so C# is C plus one and a half

Really? I always thought the C# was a half step up and the ++ was one step up. Is C# above C++?

[bluemonkmn]

Geeks, the lot of you (OK, and me)

You're trying to quantify things that weren't meant to be quantified.  The way I "C" it (, C++ was a clever way of saying this language is one step greater than C.  C# is a similar idea, but the name wasn't meant to be compared to C++ quantitatively.  You don't just assign a numeric value to the result of C and compare it to other iterations of C to see which one is greatest.  It's just a clever trade mark that gives programmers a little chuckle.  If you want to get an extra chuckle out of "C#" think of it as one step (whole or half, whatever you want) greater than C. But this time it's much more elegant and beautiful because we're using the musical notation for incrementing .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_Sharp_(programming_language)#Language_name

[tprime]

A sharp (#) is a half step in music notation, and ++ means increment by one, so C# is C plus one and a half

Ternary is base three notation so
1=1
2=2
3=10

So Binary is 01 and ternary is 001?

[SmartBoy16]

not quite.

just like normal numbers (base 10) have places, like 1s, 10, 100s, and so on, Binary (or also base 2) has places for 1s, 2s, 4s, 8s, 16s, and on.

base 10 goes up each digit by the power of 10 (1x10 = 10; 10x10 = 100; 100x10 = 1000)
base 2 goes up each digit by the power of 2 (1x2 = 2; 2x2 = 4; 4x2 = 8 )

a way to convert binary to base 10 is shown below

11010110 = 1x128 + 1x64 + 0x32 + 1x16 + 0x8 + 1x4 + 1x2 + 0x1 = 214


ternary is just the same way, except by powers of 3 (1x3 = 3; 3x3 = 9; 9x3 = 27)

[bluemonkmn]

Ugh.  Macy's started putting up Christmas decorations.  I just have to remember that computer programmers and mathematicians get Halloween and Christmas confused (because of the whole Oct 31 = Dec 25 thing, ya know... http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_are_december_25_and_october_31_the_same_numerically)

[durnurd]

HAH

[Vincent]

HA! I would never have thought of that!  :laugh:

[SmartBoy16]

Originally, a byte was worth only 7bits instead of 8bits

[tprime]

not quite.

just like normal numbers (base 10) have places, like 1s, 10, 100s, and so on, Binary (or also base 2) has places for 1s, 2s, 4s, 8s, 16s, and on.

base 10 goes up each digit by the power of 10 (1x10 = 10; 10x10 = 100; 100x10 = 1000)
base 2 goes up each digit by the power of 2 (1x2 = 2; 2x2 = 4; 4x2 = 8 )

a way to convert binary to base 10 is shown below

11010110 = 1x128 + 1x64 + 0x32 + 1x16 + 0x8 + 1x4 + 1x2 + 0x1 = 214


ternary is just the same way, except by powers of 3 (1x3 = 3; 3x3 = 9; 9x3 = 27)

So 01 = 1, 10 = 3, and 100 = 9?

Ugh.  Macy's started putting up Christmas decorations.  I just have to remember that computer programmers and mathematicians get Halloween and Christmas confused (because of the whole Oct 31 = Dec 25 thing, ya know... http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_are_december_25_and_october_31_the_same_numerically)

I got confused. 

[SmartBoy16]

type ".LOG" (no quotes, must be in caps) in the beginning of a notepad file and write anything under it.

for example:

Code: [Select]

.LOG

whatever you want here, it really doesn't matter.


file->save, File->exit. open it again and see what happens!