Joe Cole wtf happened (3 Viewers)

[Jack Griffin]

 

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[Gazolba]

This is the worst thread I have ever read, and I have worked in IT for 35 years.

 

[shmmeee]

Decimal: 30924 Binary: 111100011001100 Octal: 74314 Hexadecimal: 0x78CC

What is it in ASCII?

 

[Samo]

This is the worst thread I have ever read, and I have worked in IT for 35 years.

Pah! Philistine.

 

[shmmeee]

No. There are also those who are pretentious twats and those who aren't!

Sorry, am I threatening you with my book lernin?

 

[Samo]

Sorry, am I threatening you with my book lernin?

Have you done a lot of book lernin?

 

[Philosoraptor]

Never been able to figure out what to do after you have the binary code.

11111 10001 10001 11111 11111
10000 10001 11001 00100 10000
10000 10001 10101 00100 11111
10000 10001 10011 00100 00001
11111 11111 10001 00100 11111

 

[shmmeee]

Never been able to figure out what to do after you have the binary code.

11111 10001 10001 11111 11111
10000 10001 11001 00100 10000
10000 10001 10101 00100 11111
10000 10001 10011 00100 00001
11111 11111 10001 00100 11111

Each 5 bit segment is a number. Starting on the right hand side they start worth one then double as you go left. Like this:

VALUE--16-8--4--2--1
BIT------1--0--1--0--1

You add up all the numbers with a 1, so in this case 16+4+1 = 21. So 10101 = 21

If you want a letter you then have to map that number to an ASCII table like this one: http://www.asciitable.com/

That will tell you that 21 = Negative Acknowledge, which is used for transmitting data. Numbers run 48-57 and letters 65 to 90 and 97 to 122 and ASCII is an 8-bit code, so you should be using 8, not 5 bits really.

My name is Iain. According to the ASCII table that's 73 (I) 97 (a) 105 (i) 110 .

To turn numbers back to binary, just work out that bits you need to set to 1 to add up to your number.

VALUE--128-64-32-16-8-4-2-1
BIT------0---0---0--0--0-0-0-0

I = 73 = 64+8+1 = 01001001
a = 97 = 64+32+1 = 01100001
i = 105 = 64+32+8+1 = 01101001
n = 110 = 64+32+8+4+2 = 01101110

So Iain = 01001001011000010110100101101110

(I can't sleep, maybe someone found it useful)

 

[Jack Griffin]

What is it in ASCII?

0x46 0x55 0x43 0x4B 0x20 0x4F 0x46 0x46

and in decimal

070 085 067 075 032 079 070 070

:slap:

 

[skybluebeduff]

Apparently so, however the chap who claims to have received the message makes his story a little better everytime he tells it. I lead a sad existence reading everything and watching everything I can about UFO's.

You're not alone

 

[mrtrench]

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[dongonzalos]

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Second that

 

[mrtrench]

Second that

Unisys mainframe for me - you?

 

[skyblueinBaku]

Unisys mainframe for me - you?

Elliot 4130 (I'm old).