as it's friday here is your challenge

 

72696768742067757973

6a7573742074686f756768742069642077696e6420796f7520616c6c207570206e6f772c

62656375617365206e6f626f64792077696c6c2067657420746869732e

62757420696620796f7520646f2073656e64206d65206120706d

16e6420692077696c6c20706f737420796f7572206e616d6520696e206d79206c697374206f66206765656b73203a29

 

4c616d70736861646572

 

winners list

 

1) Chris C

2) Celt1

3) JK77

omg.. have you just learnt about numbers today - well done!

WTF? :rofl:

WTF? :rofl:

 

 

my thought's too :confused:

omg.. have you just learnt about numbers today - well done!

 

what about the letters in there

 

ok ill give you a clue think an evil spell or charm is called a . . . then you can work it out :D

I've already worked out that it is Hex but can't be bothered to translate it :rofl:

what about the letters in there

 

ok ill give you a clue think an evil spell or charm is called a . . . then you can work it out :D

 

curse

Hexadecimal. ASCII. cant be arsed, lol

well yampi and dave get a half a point but dont get a full one cause they are lazy lol

well done tho boys

right guys

just thought id wind you all up now,

becuase nobody will get this.

but if you do send me a pm

µB Æ vûã- ¸7B û¸W" µ ÍR ûÔ ÎÆ ãù7B ÷b vVVÀ2 ó

Lampshader

 

:rofl:

You can't spell and half of it seems screwed! :rofl:

right guys

just thought id wind you all up now,

becuase nobody will get this.

but if you do send me a pm

µB Æ vûã- ¸7B û¸W" µ ÍR ûÔ ÎÆ ãù7B ÷b vVVÀ2 ó

Lampshader

 

:rofl:

You can't spell and half of it seems screwed! :rofl:

 

 

2.

I think I must be one of those retarded folk :rofl: I've heard of hexadecimal but haven't got a clue what it means or what it's all about.

 

ChrisC - WTF ?!?!?!?!?!?!?! You must have a brain the size of a planet or just be a bit on the strange side. :D

Hexadecimal Explained

The hexadecimal system , or Base-16, is a way of counting used by computer programmers. As humans, we usually use the decimal system, or Base-10, because we were born with 10 fingers. Computers are made of zeros and ones, and use the binary system, or Base-2. Base-10 is inconvenient for computer calculations. Let's see why.

 

Humans count 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 but there is no single digit for 10 (ten). We must use a 1 (one) followed by a 0 (zero), hence Base-10.

 

Since computers are made up of ON and OFF switches, these switches are represented by 0's and 1's. So if a computer counted to ten it would look like this:

0, 1, 10, 11, 100, 101, 110, 111, 1000, 1001, 1010

 

This is simply counting without using the digits 2 through 9 which the fundamental core of computer circuits lack.

 

Base-10 Base-2 Base-16

Decimal Binary Hex

0 0000 00

1 0001 1

2 0010 2

3 0011 3

4 0100 4

5 0101 5

6 0110 6

7 0111 7

8 1000 8

9 1001 9

10 1010 A

11 1011 B

12 1100 C

13 1101 D

14 1110 E

15 1111 F

16 0001 0000 10

17 0001 0001 11

18 0001 0010 12

31 0001 1111 1F

100 0110 0100 64

255 1111 1111 FF

Well, a bit is a 0 or 1. A byte is 8 bits: 0000 0000 through 1111 1111. The first four bits give you a range of 16 possibilities. The second four bits also give you 16 possibilities. So if you have 16 times 16 combinations, that gives you 256 possibilities. Or a byte.

 

Now how does this relate to hexadecimal? Well, 16 possibilities translates to Base-16. Base-16 (a.k.a. hexadecimal) uses the same digits we do in Base-10 up to the number nine. Ten is represented as an A, eleven as B, twelve as C, thirteen as D, fourteen as E, and finally fifteen is the letter F. There is no digit for sixteen because in Base-16, sixteen is represented as 10. Confused yet?

 

Examine the table on the right:

 

Notice that the last few rows of the table display decimal numbers 16 and up. Well notice that 16 is binary equivalent to 0001 0000 and translates to Hex10 quite conveniently. Also notice that 0001 1111 turns into Hex1F. Finally, 1111 1111 turns into HexFF.

 

The easy conversion is due to the nature of binary and hexadecimal. Since each four binary digits, sometimes called a nibble or nybble (a "nibble" is half of a "bite"), can be referenced to the hexadecimal equivalent, a very complex binary number can be broken down into binary nybbles and converted to hex digits. For example 10100101110000010010010011110011 can be broken down to 1010 0101 1100 0001 0010 0100 1111 0011. Now each nybble is looked up on the binary table to translate to A5 C1 24 F3. The hexadecimal to binary table becomes the programmers alphabet. Now the decimal equivalent is 2,780,898,547 which is very difficult to find without a calculator.

 

So, the binary to hex conversion is quite easy, especially when you compare it with the switch from decimal to binary. Check out 255: how do we switch it to 1111 1111 easily without a special calculator? It is very difficult. But we know that 1111 is an F in hexadecimal, so, 1111 1111 must be Hex "FF".

 

This easy transition is why computer programmers use hexadecimal. Hexadecimal is a gateway between our human decimal system brains and the difficult binary system that computers function on.

 

If you use Windows 98 run your calculator (Start: Programs: Accessories: Calculator). From the View menu of the calculator choose View: Scientific. Now you have a Hex to Decimal to Binary converter! Just type a number between 1 and 256 and click on the "Hex" Option to see its hexadecimal equivalent or "Bin" to see its binary equivalent.

 

Back to tips.

 

Written by Talbott Crowell of Third Millennium, LLP, in 1996. (updated in 2001)

 

:confused: :confused: :confused: I'm still none the wiser. :confused: :confused:

I've been in computers from when you actually had to work this sh!t out :rofl:

Haven't used Hex in about 15 years though!

Know how to work it out but haven't got hours to spare as I'm off out to a club :rofl:

Took the easy route and converted it with software! :rofl:

It's actually incredibly simple but very time consuming to convert on paper :mac1:

 

Who's the saddest? Lamp Shader for posting it or me for converting it? LOL :rofl:

And just to be really sad, Lamp Shaders' Sig in binary (0's and 1's) reads "digital locksmith guild" :rofl:

 

You don't really need to work it out, just look the numbers up in a table like this: http://www.prepressure.com/library/binhex.htm

 

;)

And just to be really sad, Lamp Shaders' Sig in binary (0's and 1's) reads "digital locksmith guild" :rofl:

 

You don't really need to work it out, just look the numbers up in a table like this: http://www.prepressure.com/library/binhex.htm

 

;)

 

exposing all my secrets nooooooooo lol :rofl:

ok here's my brainteaser:

 

 

 

 

*POIEHWGSG$%£^ :xxx: joij3n3,w'e;,EEF;e :hyper: lijjfwe we :rant: 8yn8y209nwgawg

 

 

work that one out ye bastids!

have you learned about radio codes?

right guys

just thought id wind you all up now,

becuase nobody will get this.

but if you do send me a pm

µB Æ vûã- ¸7B û¸W" µ ÍR ûÔ ÎÆ ãù7B ÷b vVVÀ2 ó

Lampshader

 

:rofl:

You can't spell and half of it seems screwed! :rofl:

LOL - the last but one line is missing a leading six. It should read:

 

616e6420692077696c6c20706f737420796f7572206e616d652 0696e206d79206c697374206f66206765656b73203a29

 

Steve :)

have you learned about radio codes?

 

send me the :-

make,

serial,

car it came from

 

hog_father@hotmail.com

If its that fookin hard to work out what on earth use do we have for it?

 

AS for how a computer works out with binary codes who cares as long as the internet comes on when you click the explorer button.

 

OH! how cynical can one be???? :rofl: