15 and Hexadecimal - Numberphile
Why is "f" a number to people who work with computers? More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ More about binary in our "Pac-Man" video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umYvFdU54P...
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JAMES CLEWETT: Absolutely it's heavy. It is an antique 1980s television. This is back from when television was furniture. I love it. Well, this is my first computer. This is a computer that my parents had the foresight to buy me when I was 11 years old. It gave me a curiosity about mathematics and physics, which has never really gone away. Today I'm going to talk about the number 15. And I want to tell you that if you're a computer geek like me, we don't really think of the number 15 as 15. We think of it as the letter F, and I'm going to tell you why. Right, you've got to get this sound. This just makes such a fantastic switch-on sound. [BEEP] Isn't that satisfying? So all I'm going to do is write a short p...
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JAMES CLEWETT: Absolutely it's heavy. It is an antique 1980s television. This is back from when television was furniture. I love it. Well, this is my first computer. This is a computer that my parents had the foresight to buy me when I was 11 years old. It gave me a curiosity about mathematics and physics, which has never really gone away. Today I'm going to talk about the number 15. And I want to tell you that if you're a computer geek like me, we don't really think of the number 15 as 15. We think of it as the letter F, and I'm going to tell you why. Right, you've got to get this sound. This just makes such a fantastic switch-on sound. [BEEP] Isn't that satisfying? So all I'm going to do is write a short p...
