Re: [PLUG] Comcast "OPEN IMMEDIATELY" but don't

[Jon Galt <jongalt@pinn.net>]

On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:

> You're both wrong. It's 24 bytes.
> 
> Six blocks of two characters of hexidecimal.
> 
> That's two bytes per hex digit (8 bits to a bit, 16 values per hex
> digit) times two digits per block times six blocks. 2 x 2 x 6 = 24.

Um... I *think* you can get 16 values out of 4 bits, can you not?

So two hex digits makes 8 bits, which is 1 byte.  6 pairs of hex digits,
six bytes.  Unless of course these hex digits represent things differently
than they normally do....

And of course, 256 ^ 6 is 281474976710656, which is certainly a power of
two (2 ^ 48).  And it also seems to represent a fairly large address
space!  I doubt that 24 or 48 bytes are necessary, at this point in human
history. ;-)

Wayne


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