THE Q'S OF DOOM (not really) (returns) (you sickass mofo)

[Xellos]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size=2 face="Verdana">quote:</font><table border="0" width="90%" bgcolor="#333333" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0"><tr><td width="100%"><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#FF9900"><tr><td width="100%" bgcolor="#E0E0E0"><font size=2 face="Verdana"> And I must say this is quite unusual. Regular satellites aren't as big as the Moon; this is a special case. A plausible theory says that the Moon was part of the Earth in the early ages of our solar system, and that a brutal asteroid impact split it in 2; the main chunk still followed the orbit and eventually got round again, and the smaller chunk became the Moon, orbiting around the Earth. </font></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></BLOCKQUOTE>

I knew that part, but not the corona thing!

[Cavalier]

i aint reading that! XD haha for once i didnt read spoilers ^_^

[Dragonrider]

I sorta knew the corona answer, but not exactly. It's sort of like if you get a lamp and stick a ball the exact size as the bulb a little ways in front of it, you can still see the light, just not the bulb.

[Cavalier]

am i the only one who hasnt played this!? @__@

[Xellos]

An eclipse has nothgin to do aw/Xenogears -_-U

[Cavalier]

oooh doesnt it!? doesnt it!? HMMM!? ... i guess not [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[mrwiseman]

Next Q: Why are numbers like 1024, 256, or 65536 so common in computers?

[melfice]

cuz they are powers of 2, exactly, 2^10, 2^8 and 2^16.

But, the next question is, Does 16777216 has something to see with those numbers?

[mrwiseman]

That's right; computers work in base 2, so numbers like 16 (2^4), 64 (2^6), or 1024 (2^10), are easy numbers for them. They are equivalent to 10, 100, 1000, 10000, etc. for humans.

16777216 is 2^24, or 256^3. This is the amount of different numbers you can do with 3 bytes. Also, for describing TrueColor images, 3 bytes are used for every pixel, each one for the amount of red, green and blue components of the pixel. Since 1 Byte = 8 bits, you have 2^8 = 256 different levels of red, green and blue, giving a total of 256*256*256 = 16777216 different colors. [img]smile.gif[/img]

[Daigotsu]

In school I was learning about binary and hexidecimal.