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Fester:
 
^ is called a caret (not a carrot which Bugs Bunny likes)
has a few meanings but in your instance .....
10 ^ 2 .... is 10 to the power of 2
(as in the written number 10 with a little 2 to the top right, raised slightly above the top of the 10)
it is used in places like this where superscript is not available



--- Quote from: Vangie on March 08, 2010, 06:51:55 PM ---Okay Dave and Fester,
I googled base 2 math, and got lost here--probably somewhere around 8th grade stuff...??

Years later, we learned that the ones column meant 10^0, the tens column meant 10^1, the hundreds column 10^2 and so on, such that

      10^2|10^1|10^0
        1 |  9 |  3

the number 193 is really {(1*10^2)+(9*10^1)+(3*10^0)}.

Can anyone explain what the carrot means?  Maybe if I get that I can move on to the next section...... ::) ::)I hope.  I can't figure out how 193 is obtained here.

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It also has nothing to do with understanding this riddle.
 

Joel:
I don't get this! but I never confused 31 Oct = 25 Dec. either.  ;D

Joel:
Ok, I do get 10 = 2, never was good at math though. :-\

Fester:
31 Oct. does equal 25 Dec.
   
31 Octal = 25 Decimal



--- Quote from: Joel on March 08, 2010, 07:41:38 PM ---I don't get this! but I never confused 31 Oct = 25 Dec. either.  ;D

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Halloween = Christmas
 

Fester:
 
Joel is the winner!


--- Quote from: Joel on March 08, 2010, 07:53:12 PM ---Ok, I do get 10 = 2, never was good at math though. :-\

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10 binary = 2 decimal
 

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