hexadecimal calculations

Ken Ray kray at sonsothunder.com
Thu Jan 27 11:52:43 EST 2005


On 1/26/05 11:00 PM, "Paul Salyers" <ps1 at softseven.org> wrote:

> will the computer (REV) do math calculations with hexadecimal without
> converting it to decimal?

I don't think so... you'd need to use baseConvert to convert the numbers to
decimal, do your math, then convert them back.

I may be wrong, though, since I rarely use hex... anyone else got an idea
about this?

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com




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