Re: How do I determine subnet manually?

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IamGimli join:2004-02-28 Canada ·Primus Talkbroadband ·B2B2C High-Speed I..	reply to tschmidt Re: How do I determine subnet manually? said by tschmidt : If you stick with binary or hex it is a lot less confusing. I understand binary but how is hexadecimal any less confusing than decimal to represent network addresses? It may make them a bit shorter to write but I don't see any difference in the confusion aspect.
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tschmidt Premium,MVM join:2000-11-12 Milford, NH ·Verizon Online DSL	said by IamGimli : I understand binary but how is hexadecimal any less confusing than decimal to represent network addresses? It may make them a bit shorter to write but I don't see any difference in the confusion aspect. Dotted decimal represents a discontinuous counting method. If I add 1 to FFh I get 100h. If I add 1 to 0.255 (dotted decimal) I get 1.0. Life gets even more exciting if I start playing with masking lower order bits. If I want to mask the 2 low order bits I have 1111 1100 b (binary) FCh (hex) 252 Decimal Perhaps I'm unique (after all this is not my day job) but I find it impossible to do arithmetic in dotted decimal. /tom
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