Octagonal Shanks

[Richard Brekne]

Grin... and think of renaming that famous James Bond Film... Hexopussy
:):)

RicB

"Wolfley, Eric (wolfleel)" wrote:
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> Well, that certainly clarifies things...now we can call octopi hexopi.
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> Maybe.... just maybe... this "hex" term is some  odd spinoff from
> computer jargon. Hex then has never meant hexigonal, but hexidecimal, or
> double octogonal.... which of course no shank is... but very loosely
> applied puter jargon often finds oct and hex intermixed and jumbled
> under the term hex... and while all p-nerds understand hex to mean a 16
> based number systems, its easy to see oct as a subset... and both are
> kind of expanded or glorified binaries at least in one sense.
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> So... hex...(not hexigonal) sort of means... eight !!... sort of :)
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