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Originally Posted by KC911

You disspeeeeeled EBCDIC .... yep, I can still read it, ASCII ... not so much . I was a systems progrmmer later on .... reading/analyizing dumps & traces ... I thrived on those .

C1 = A (alpha)

Of course it's all binary in the machine, but

1100 0001 = C1

which leads us to Hexadecimal math .

I had the "gift of geek"

HAD....

my speeeeling and tuping here are proof ....

and I don't pwoofread

I can convert back and forth between binary and decimal in my head all day long and subnet IPs and come up with the least number of "subnets" to create a range of addresses. I get hex, and can do the conversions, but it's much slower. I wrote a research paper on number systems (binary, base 4, octal, hex, decimal) when I was 13, but I've never really had to use hex other than looking at MAC addresses.