This thread is just what the title says it is. It is all about Math. You can post math jokes(the jokes don't have to be good), math questions, what you like about Math, or even why you hate Math.
My math joke: Resistance is not futile. It is voltage divided by amps.
Base 16: Because you run out of numbers after 9 you start using letters A=10 B=11 C=12 ... F=15
Right now people use base 16 in coding because binary would take forever with really large numbers. My teacher said though they might go to base 32 because the numbers are getting so big.
Wow, that's cool. It really raises the amount of things you can show in X amount of digits. For example, in 5 digits of binary, you can display 32 (2^5) different things, and with decimal, you can display 100,000 (10^5) different things, but with this base 16 thing (lol I couldn't think of a name for it) you can display 1,048,576 (16^5) things.
Right now people use base 16 in coding because binary would take forever with really large numbers.
And they only use powers of 2 because that way 1 digit of, let's say, hexadecimal, is equal to 4 digits of binary, because 16 = 2^4. Also, the highest 4 digit number you can reach in binary is 1111, which is 15 (i.e. F). Same for Octal, except with 3 columns equal to 1 digit because 8 = 2^3. 4 isn't used because it is simply unusefull due to it's size.
If you wanted to make a very large binary number readable, you would first separate it into pieces of 4, then decode each of those pieces separately into their hexadecimal representations.
Example
1101100110110111 (55735 in decimal)
Separate it into: 1101 1001 1011 0111
Then translate each of these into hexadecimal
1101=D 1001=9 1011=B 0111=7
So now the original number would be D9B7 in hexadecimal.
When exactly is it that you learn binary code? I'm only in Algebra II.
Oh you poor little Algebra II people. Just be glad you didn't have my Algebra II teacher(she tortured kids for fun). But seriously she was a little bit insane. Nice person just really hard grader. I did learn a lot in that class though.
I didn't learn it in math. I learned it in Digital Electronics. So if you take an Electronics course you will learn it. Or I could teach you if you really wanted me too. I recommend the first option.
Ah. So I think its safe to say I will not be learning Binary Code, as my school does not offer any electronics courses. :/
Binary code is really pretty simple. And now of course, I am obligated to tell this joke... There are 10 types of people in the world: those who know binary, and those who don't.
Just learned SOHCAHTOA a few days ago. >.> Kinda fun to say, it's like double bubble.
^Haha thats funny. I learned sohcahtoa earlier in the year. I have to say, I love Trigonometry. Sadly, I'm done with math for the year. I wont have anything til next fall
