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  Hexadecimal - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In mathematics and computer science, hexadecimal or simply hex is a numeral system with a radix or base of 16 usually written using the symbols 0–9 and A–F or a–f.
The word "hexadecimal" is strange in that hexa is derived from the Greek έξι (hexi) for "six" and decimal is derived from the Latin for "ten".
A common use of hexadecimal numerals is found in HTML and CSS.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/0x   (806 words)

  
 Hexadecimal - Information from Reference.com
Hexadecimal is primarily used in computing to represent a byte, whose 256 possible values can be represented with only two digits in hexadecimal notation.
one sixteenth is 0.1 in hexadecimal, 0.09 in duodecimal and 0.0625 in decimal).
The word "hexadecimal" is strange in that hexa is derived from the Greek έξ (hex) for "six" and decimal is derived from the Latin for "tenth".
www.reference.com /search?q=Hexadecimal   (2622 words)

  
 Hexadecimal Summary
The word "hexadecimal" is strange in that hexa is derived from the Greek έξι (hexi) for "six" and decimal is derived from the Latin for "tenth".
The word "hexadecimal" is unusual because Greek and Latin elements are combined; the expected purely Latin form would be "sexadecimal", but then computer hackers would be tempted to shorten the word to "sex".” Donald Knuth has pointed out that the etymologically correct term is "senidenary", from the Latin term for "grouped by 16".
Hexadecimal is used also in more generic computing, as the most commonly found form of expressing a guaranteeably human-readable string representation of a byte.
www.bookrags.com /Hexadecimal   (2531 words)

  
 Time (Linux Reviews)
One view is that time is part of the fundamental structure of the universe, a dimension in which events occur in sequence.
A contrasting view is that time is part of the fundamental intellectual structure (together with space and number) within which we sequence events, quantify the duration of events and the intervals between them, and compare the motions of objects.
According to these theories, the concept of time depends on the spatial reference frame of the observer(s), and the human perception as well as the measurement by instruments such as clocks are different for observers in relative motion.
linuxreviews.org /dictionary/Time   (4203 words)

  
 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal
In mathematics and computer science, hexadecimal, base-, or simply hex, is a numeral system with a radix, or base, of 16, usually written using the symbols 0–9 and A–F, or a–f.
IBM introduced the current hexadecimal system to the computing world; an earlier version, using the digits 0–9 and u–z, had been introduced in 1956, and had been used by the Bendix G-15 computer.
Hexadecimal is primarily used in computing to represent a byte.
www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=hexadecimal   (2353 words)

  
 Themeasuremet.com - Time
Leibniz and others thought of time as a fundamental part of an abstract conceptual framework, together with space and number, within which we sequence events, quantify their duration, and compare the motions of objects.
Time is currently one of the few fundamental quantities (quantities which cannot be defined via other quantities because there is nothing more fundamental known at present).
Time appears to go fast when sleeping, or, to put it differently, time seems not to have passed while asleep.
www.themeasuremet.com /time/cat.php   (1680 words)

  
 Clocks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Like hexadecimal time, the day is divided into 65536 parts, only we display it as a binary number using squares for bits, here using dark squares to represent 1 and white for 0.
This can be viewed as a variation of hexadecimal time by dividing it into four 2x2 blocks of squares, each block corresponds to a digit of hexadecimal time.
A value of zero in hexadecimal time would be a block of four white squares, a value of "F" (15) would be four dark squares.
zapatopi.net /clocks.html   (500 words)

  
 T5010 Time Code Reader/Generator
Loads the generator time from the reader time so that the code being generated will be a continuation of the code being read.
Selects time data for display on the LED readout video character generator (when character generator is in the single line mode).
Used to enter the hexadecimal digits A through F when into the user data when the source of the user data is not rear panel auxiliary i/o connector.
www.timecode.com /t5010.html   (1081 words)

  
 Jorge Peña » Blog Archive » Binary and Hexadecimal Tutorial
Hexadecimal is a base 16 numbering system, it uses numbers (and letters) 0-F, 0 being 0 and F being 15.
Note that each digit in hexadecimal is 4 bits, so even though we can express 0 in 000000, and also 0, we have to fill up 4 bits, so it would be 0000.
Notice that this is the decimal value, you have to convert it to binary or hexadecimal according to your situation.
www.jorgepena.be /binary-and-hexadecimal   (2180 words)

  
 Cisco - How to Calculate the Hexadecimal Value for DHCP Option 2 (time offset)
When using the IOS DHCP server, the time offset value for a particular time zone is specified as an unsigned 32 bit hexadecimal value.
Time offset is based on Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) which defines a second as 1/86400 of a day, which is not 100% accurate.
The hexadecimal values are set to have a fix length of 32 bits as specified in Option 2 of the DHCP RFC 2132.
www.cisco.com /warp/public/109/calculate_hexadecimal_dhcp.html   (735 words)

  
 News | Gainesville.com | The Gainesville Sun | Gainesville, Fla.
The hexadecimal 16H/day time format was first proposed by the Swedish-American engineer John W. Nystrom in 1863.
Mr Rogers's proposal uses the hexadecimal digit system of 0-9 and A-F. A day is unity, or 1, and any fraction thereof can be shown with digits to the right of the hexadecimal point.
Since the time divisions are all powers of sixteen, this can also be parsed by taking the first digit to the right of the point as the hexhour, the next two as the hexminutes and the fourth as the hexseconds.
www.gainesville.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Hexadecimal_time   (216 words)

  
 Hexadecimal time - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In either case there are 256 hexadecimal minutes in a hexadecimal hour and 16 hexadecimal seconds in a hexadecimal minute.
The hexadecimal 16H/day time format was first proposed by the Swedish-American engineer John W. Nystrom in 1863.
Since the time divisions are all powers of sixteen, this can also be parsed by taking the first digit to the right of the point as the hexhour, the next two as the hexminutes and the fourth as the hexseconds.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hexadecimal_time   (227 words)

  
 Intuitor Hex Headquarters, The Hex Clock
Hex time is expressed as a hexadecimal fraction (from 0 to 1) showing how much of the day has passed.
For the sake of accessibility, the leftmost digit of hex time is called the hexhours, the next two digits are referred to as hexminutes, and the fourth digit designates hexseconds.
Unlike conventional time, to convert between hexhours, hexminutes, and hexseconds, instead of having to multiply or divide by some arbitrary conversion factor, all you have to do is shift the digits.
www.intuitor.com /hex/hexclock.html   (624 words)

  
 Scenario League Design Tips - Test of Time - Masks
This design tip is intended to follow on from 'Introduction to Test of Time Flags' and assumes an understanding of the concepts laid out in that paper.
In the design tip 'Introduction to Test of Time Flags' an example themed on the American Revolution was used to illustrate the use of flags.
As part of the debugging process, the report identifies the hexadecimal alternative expressions for binary flags and masks, which therefore may be used to then edit out the binary expression if desired.
sleague.apolyton.net /Guides/sldt_tot_masks.shtml   (1672 words)

  
 The Church of The Poisoned Mind
Hexadecimal, who was wearing a flowing fl gown that camouflaged her pregnancy - from the front, at least - beckoned him in.
Hexadecimal was an unheard-of case: a non-benign Virus registered as a legal citizen of her system.
Hexadecimal did not know what it was telling her; she assumed that it was something to do with her health.
www.c4vct.com /kym/slachash/fic/poisoned.htm   (10096 words)

  
 David Llamas at the University of St Andrews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The day is divided up into 65536 parts and written in hexadecimal (base-16) notation (A=10, B=11...
The first digit is 1/16 of a day which equals 1.5 hours (0x8000 would be noon).
The "0x" at the begining is just to signify that it is in hexadecimal notation, we could just leave it off or use some other signifier.
standrews.inchcolm.org /clocks/hextime.html   (129 words)

  
 directopedia : Directory : Reference : Time
Starting in 2007, "daylight time" will be observed from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November, adding about a month to the current daylight saving time (the first Sunday in April to the last Sunday in October).
It is used as a time scale of ephemerides...
Time Servers NTP Time Servers provide accurate timing for computers and computer networks.
www.directopedia.org /directory/Reference-Time.shtml   (2545 words)

  
 Quartus II Tcl Example: Date Time Stamp   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Writing the date time stamp into your design files provides on-chip storage of when the design was compiled.
You usually have to convert the ASCII date time string to another format (such as hexadecimal or binary) to store it in a register bank or memory.
Each pair of hexadecimal digits is the hexadecimal code for the ASCII character.
www.altera.com /support/examples/tcl/tcl-date-time-stamp.html   (370 words)

  
 Hexadecimal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hexadecimal is primarily used in computing as the most common form of expressing a guaranteeably human-readable string representation of a byte.
For example, in the URL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main%20Page, the (hexadecimal) ASCII character code for a space (" ") is 20.
This is the most common format for hexadecimal on IBM mainframes (zSeries) and minicomputers (iSeries) running the traditional OS's (zOS, zVSE, zVM, TPF, OS/400), and is used in Assembler, PL/1, Cobol, JCL, scripts, commands and other places.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hexadecimal   (2405 words)

  
 Kibbles `n' Bits `n' Bits `n' Bits   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
A certain frazzled programmer is writing a program that receives two numbers at a time in hexadecimal form, performs an addition or subtraction on them, and outputs the result in decimal form.
However, the binary representation of the hexadecimal numbers also needs to be output, in the exact format shown by the sample output below.
This programmer would gladly write the routine to do this himself, but every time he tries to do anything in base 2, he breaks out in hives.
acm.uva.es /p/v4/446.html   (214 words)

  
 Editing Hexadecimal (Table Format Screen)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
When "Hexadecimal Edit" of "Record Menu" or the tool button is executed, move to "Hexadecimal Edit bar".
When it starts first time, "Hexadecimal Edit bar" is not displayed.
Because the content of data is displayed by the hexadecimal number, its data is fixed with the Enter key after changes, and the dialog box shuts.
www.adtools.com /download/v8manuals/data-editor-help/html/lnd_047.htm   (188 words)

  
 PACTOR
PACTOR is a synchronous transmission system with a packet duration of 0.96 second, a CS duration of 0.12 second, and an idle time of 0.17 second for a total cycle time of 1.25 seconds.
The idle time is required for turaround procedures and settling, which allows for a maximum distance of about 20,000 km as in AMTOR.
The Header byte consists of the 8-bit pattern for 55 hexadecimal and is used for synchronization, MemoryARQ, and listen mode.
www.arrl.org /FandES/field/regulations/techchar/PACTOR.html   (928 words)

  
 Lexical Structure
A translation of Unicode escapes (§3.3) in the raw stream of Unicode characters to the corresponding Unicode character.
Hexadecimal digits with values 10 through 15 are represented by the ASCII letters
Strings computed by constant expressions (§15.28) are computed at compile time and then treated as if they were literals.
java.sun.com /docs/books/jls/second_edition/html/lexical.doc.html   (2934 words)

  
 Hexadecimal Time Display Calculator
This creates and displays the time in hexadecimal (hex), as opposed to other conventional displays.
There are many of us that are programmers that do hex math, do mental hex conversions, remember hex addresses and the like, but no sane person thinks time in hex...
We also have an Octal Time Display Calculator.
www.csgnetwork.com /timehexdispcalc.html   (110 words)

  
 WDVL: Color / Colour
As a result, these servers are largely underutilized, and millions of dollars in server resources lie idle most of the time.
Once you determine the hexadecimal value for the color you want, you must enter the hexadecimal value into your HTML.
The Background attribute specfies the URL of an image to be tiled across the document window before anything else is rendered.
www.wdvl.com /Graphics/Colour   (853 words)

  
 Hexadecimal: Miscellaneous
According to some sources, the earliest known proposal for a hexadecimal time system came from a 19th-century Swedish-American inventor named John W. Nystrom.
Hex Editor Pro 1.00.0025 — Hex Editor Pr … is a hexadecimal editor that allows an average PC user to quickly edit files, by providing him with intuitive interface and powerful tools.
For example, if you said that a particular value is stored at $10F0 instead of 4,336, it shouldn't make any difference.
www.lycos.com /info/hexadecimal--miscellaneous.html   (339 words)

  
 BD Systems Control Software
When reading the internal log on the Z3801A GPS Receiver, the hexadecimal time and date reported by the Z3801A is converted to an Ascii text time and date by the GPS Control program.
This feature allows the time display to update each second (or every two seconds for a 1PP2S pulse) while the system status is constantly providing data to the GPS Control program.
The Time and Date View is an abbreviated profile or footprint screen that displays the current time and date along with basic status and LED controls of the GPS Receiver.
www.realhamradio.com /gps-control-bdsystems.htm   (598 words)

  
 First Post/Question - Lissa Explains it All: Web Design Forums
I like to use Hexadecimal time and Metric (or Decimal) time.
Since I was intrested in alternative time formats, I found something called Hexadecimal time (Base-16 time)
Hexadecimal time uses these digits 0-9 plus A, B, C, D, E and F (The first 6 letters of the English Alphabet.)
www.lissaexplains.com /forum/showthread.php?mode=hybrid&t=48204   (574 words)

  
 Page #31: Play Time! with Hexadecimal Numbers. Part 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Now that we have seen how we can make use of hexadecimal numbers without understanding them, we will put this knowledge to use with a brief exercise.
To get the number that you will use to replace #nnnnnn, use the method that we played with on Page 30.
This time, choose the light brown (beige?) color to get the hex code.
members.aol.com /jbjtutor/HTML_class/page31.htm   (61 words)

  
 NS-2 Trace Formats - Nsnam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
It can also be generated by running "nam -p".
Note that all flags may not be used every time.
Dummy event to be used in time synchronization
nsnam.isi.edu /nsnam/index.php/NS-2_Trace_Formats   (1251 words)

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