26 Jan
2010
26 Jan
'10
12:45 a.m.
On 1/25/2010 20:06, Mark Smith wrote:
This from people who can probably do decimal to binary conversion and back again for IPv4 subnetting in their head and are proud of it. Surely IPv6 hex to binary and back again can be the new party trick? :-)
Hehe. Decimal -> binary in your head? I don't even bother except if it's some well known "magic #s". Hex -> binary though is super simple since unlike decimal, each digit translates exactly into a nybble. You just have to know the binary from 0 - 15, 16 simple four-bit patterns, and it's a piece of cake. You can give me hex numbers and and I'll rattle off binary all day, or vica-versa. Octal is similarly easy, but would result in some long IPv6 addresses. :-)