Showing posts with label Binary conversions from base 16. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Binary conversions from base 16. Show all posts

Friday, January 7, 2011

Binary conversions in the Google search bar.

From Matt Cutts' blog:
   
Some examples of conversions that can be performed in the Google search bar.

One of Google’s goals is that you should be able to throw just about anything into a search box (package tracking numbers, airline flight numbers, etc.) and Google will try to do something reasonable, such as return the status of a flight. Recently I was trying to reverse engineer a USB protocol and needed to convert some numbers between base 16 (hexadecimal) and base 10 (decimal). On a hunch, I threw the conversion into a Google search box. Sure enough, it worked fine.