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Originally Posted by Rev. Bob
Maybe it's my background, but it's the idea of looking up the conversions in a book that strikes me as silly. I do most one-byte conversions in my head, two-byte values might take me a little longer, and if I can't do that for some reason (large values, or maybe not enough sleep), a pencil and a scrap of paper do just dandy.
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I think the characters in the book used the reference books because a simple mistake of a single digit would put them in another part of the galaxy.....which is exactly what happened. (Are spoiler alerts necessary for a book several decades old?
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