Subj : Re: PI to 104 Decimal Pla
To   : KURT WEISKE
From : Mike Powell
Date : Sun Sep 07 2025 11:03:18

>  MP> That has always frustrated me because we dealt with hex at work all the
>  MP> time, and the hex values I see on an FTN do *not* equal what we used at
>  MP> work.  Granted, ours were *usually* EBCDIC but even the ASCII values
>  MP> are not "right."

> "I know what binary is. Jesus Christ! I memorized the hexadecimal
> times tables when I was 14 writing machine code, okay? Ask me what 9
> times F is. It's fleventy-five. I don't need you telling me what binary
> is"

> Erlich Bachman, from "Silicon Valley"

LOL!  I have only been able to see the first season of that one.  They
aired it on one of the cable networks after it was a season or two old.  I
was hoping they'd keep doing it as it is a trip.


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