Re: [NSW}Gradient/Curve diagrams.

[Jack Russell <jackrussell@compuserve.com>]

>

i was "lucky" enough to start in computers in the '60s. One one of the greats of
computers gave us a lecture on numbering systems to explain binary, octal, hex
and even mixed radix. He started with LSD which of course is the ultimate mixed
radix arithmetic system. From then on nothing in computers seemed complicated.

Happy Christmas

Jack Russell



> But as children we never realised the complexities that we were
> involved in - much the same as learning to play a musical instrument
> or riding a bike.   I remember getting some hang ups in the 70's,  as
> an adult,  when I started getting interested in computers and had to
> learn to work in octal and binary, until it dawned on me that I had
> worked in almost every base known to man as a pre-teenager :-)
>
> Jim.
> --
> Jim Guthrie
> Progressing (maybe) in S7 at www.netcomuk.co.uk/~sprocket/index.html