[35802] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Statements against new.net?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mathias Koerber)
Fri Mar 16 02:35:10 2001
From: "Mathias Koerber" <mathias@koerber.org>
To: "Simon Higgs" <simon@higgs.com>,
"Nanog@Merit. Edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 13:40:36 +0800
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> The binary equivalent of the hex is also a palindrome:
>=20
> Bin: 10000000000010001000000000001
you're missing 3 bits ! Assuming you want to add 3 trailing 0's this =
would
yield:
Hex: 80088008
Quad: 128.8.128.8
which is a palindrome alright, but not the same address Stepehn =
mentioned.
>=20
> :-)
>=20
> > > Hex: 10011001
Bin: 00010000000000010001000000000001
Not a palindrome :-(
> >
> >This is what I was referring to, yes. For those who still don't get
> >it (and as I've pointed out privately more than a few times today),
> >it's a palindrome. Reads the same forwards as backwards. 15+ years
> >ago, people were impressed by that sort of thing.
Because it does not matter whether it's network byte order or not?
Mathias
