Re: Radix in Character class-still not clear

[nikhi]

what u said is ok. but how do I get an answer as 36 for Character.MAX_RADIX?

"Paul Clapham" <pclapham@core-mark.com> wrote:
>"Radix" means the base of the number system you want to use. The number
>system we use every day has base, or radix, 10. You are probably familiar
>with hexadecimal notation, which has radix 16, and with binary notation,
>which has radix 2.
>
>nikhi <p_viji@rediffmail.com> wrote in message
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>>
>> In java.lang package there is a Character class which has constants
>defined
>> such as MAX_RADIX,MIN_RADIX
>> I get the value as 36 & 2 resp.
>> explain what radix means & how is this value obtained?
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>>
>
>

[Paul Clapham]

That's the number the designers of the class decided to use. Possible
reason: hexadecimal (radix 16) uses 0-9 and A-F. Radix 36 would use 0-9
and A-Z. Radix 37 would use 0-9 and A-Z and what?

nikhi <p_viji@rediffmail.com> wrote in message
news:39cb2ec6$1@news.devx.com...
>
> what u said is ok. but how do I get an answer as 36 for
Character.MAX_RADIX?
>
> "Paul Clapham" <pclapham@core-mark.com> wrote:
> >"Radix" means the base of the number system you want to use. The number
> >system we use every day has base, or radix, 10. You are probably
familiar
> >with hexadecimal notation, which has radix 16, and with binary notation,
> >which has radix 2.
> >
> >nikhi <p_viji@rediffmail.com> wrote in message
> >news:39c9e378$1@news.devx.com...
> >>
> >> In java.lang package there is a Character class which has constants
> >defined
> >> such as MAX_RADIX,MIN_RADIX
> >> I get the value as 36 & 2 resp.
> >> explain what radix means & how is this value obtained?
> >> Thanks in advance.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>