DeMotivators

**NickS VR4** · 07-11-2014, 10:37 AM

Originally Posted by Echo419

yeah, from what I've found it's a comp field thing. so splain' to me what's the purpose of base conversions?

Well, there are a couple reasons a programmer needs to know. I am only a hobby programmer, didn't finish my schooling, but....

Knowing binary can help with bit shifting operations to make faster computations and simpler code.
Base 16, because just about everything is in Base 16. 1 byte = 8 bits = 00-FF = 0-255.

When dealing with color codes, bit shifting, and other conversions, it could be useful. So essentially computers use Binary only, but a lot of binary (bits) gets grouped together into Hex (Base 16/bytes). Only people use base 10, because we have 10 fingers.

**IPD** · 07-11-2014, 10:40 AM

well base conversions come in EXTREMELY handy in computer science, since all of computing is governed by binary--at the root level. Hexidecimal and Octal are derivations thereof.

**IPD** · 07-11-2014, 10:42 AM

For the sake of shits & giggles, Myans used base 20, not that anyone really cares...

**Echo419** · 07-11-2014, 10:46 AM

f*ck I'm dumb

**FeaRpb** · 07-11-2014, 01:07 PM

**green-lantern** · 07-11-2014, 01:48 PM

**Echo419** · 07-11-2014, 01:49 PM

is that science one even possible? looks fake.

**sergechronos** · 07-11-2014, 01:57 PM

Originally Posted by Echo419

is that science one even possible? looks fake.

It is possible, in a nutshell, the way that the mass is distributed on the forks and how they're arranged on the penny drastically alters the center of gravity of the penny+forks and basically moves it to where the penny meets the glass so that if put in precisely the right location and balanced properly it will sit there. Any small shift or bump would cause it to come falling down.