Oh, puleeeeze! Don't you think it's just because someone was too lazy to count the flipping sides? Y'all are tooooo MUCH! Mary Smith University of TEXAS at Austin At 10:59 AM 11/21/2003 +0100, you wrote: >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. > >So... hex...(not hexigonal) sort of means... eight !!... sort of :) > >Cheers >RicB > > >"Wolfley, Eric (wolfleel)" wrote: > > > > Jim, > > > > After extensive empirical research I have determined that the shanks Renner > > and others sell are indeed octagonal, so your research has now been > > duplicated. A square with the corners cut off. I think hex rolls off the > > tongue better than oct and sounds more sexy or something. Its hard to stop > > being wrong sometimes. > > > > > >-- >Richard Brekne >RPT, N.P.T.F. >UiB, Bergen, Norway >mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no >http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html >http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html >_______________________________________________ >caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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