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Posted: **Mon May 12, 2014 10:26 pm**

JPG40504 wrote:Octal IS binary grouped in 3 bits.

Yea, but I still don't get it!

As for the originally-posted binary pun, the following may help the roughly 3% of forum members who did not once earn a living coding COBOL, FORTRAN, etc. (Personally, I did a little bit of FORTRAN, and a fair amount of Pascal.)

Decimal to binary conversion chart:

0 00
1 01
2 10

3 11

Posted: **Mon May 12, 2014 10:35 pm**

0 000............0
1 001............1
2 010............2
3 011
4 100.......decimal
5 101
6 110
7 111............7
10 001 000 .....8
11 001 001 .....9

Octal is to the base 8(hence the name) and is binary in groups of three bits.

Ever wonder why we use the decimal(base 10) numbers. The answer is on the ends of your arms.

Posted: **Mon May 12, 2014 11:17 pm**

JPG40504 wrote: Ever wonder why we use the decimal(base 10) numbers. The answer is on the ends of your arms.

At least if you are a careful woodworker!

Posted: **Mon May 12, 2014 11:42 pm**

BuckeyeDennis wrote:At least if you are a careful woodworker!

Maybe! One finger is a mite shorter than it used to be!:D Lesson learned a half century ago!!!;)

Posted: **Tue May 13, 2014 5:51 am**

JPG40504 wrote:Then there are the other 8 kinds!:D

I guess we know which group you're in! Ah, binary humor brings out the geek in all of us.

Posted: **Tue May 13, 2014 9:04 am**

tomsalwasser wrote:I guess we know which group you're in! Ah, binary humor brings out the geek in all of us.

Yep 1 (base 9 31/32):D

Posted: **Tue May 13, 2014 3:51 pm**

Since JPG obviously has an acute case of binaryitis, with his analytical brain, I think he should try to dicipher the name of one of our newest members.

s02vP4qJ3

Surely there is a code in there somewhere. By the way, welcome to the forum.

Posted: **Tue May 13, 2014 4:04 pm**

ashbury wrote:I think he should try to dicipher the name of one of our newest members.

s02vP4qJ3

Surely there is a code in there somewhere. By the way, welcome to the forum.

The number of new people joining lately has REALLY DROPPED in numbers.

Posted: **Tue May 13, 2014 6:42 pm**

ashbury wrote:Since JPG obviously has an acute case of binaryitis, with his analytical brain, I think he should try to dicipher the name of one of our newest members.

s02vP4qJ3

Surely there is a code in there somewhere. By the way, welcome to the forum.

[url=http://www.shopsmith.net/forums/member.htm?u=63064]You left off the 'h']

I ain't a cryptologist!:D

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