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Is there a link between the 65,536 colours in colour screens & Microsoft Excel? |
Geezay
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I hope this question is neither silly, nor been answered elsewhere in the forum, I searched.
Micosoft Excel has 65,536 rows. This is the same number of colours supported by "modern" mobile phone screens like the T610/630, P900, etc. Is this a coincidence or is there some logic behind the whole thing?
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Lynx69
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 I just noticed that. I think its just a coincidence.
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Ninjaturtle
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Well, just go 2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2 and there ya go...  |
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On 2004-06-16 00:29:59, Ninjaturtle wrote:
Well, just go 2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2 and there ya go...
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lol, what does that do???
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Lynx69
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Yeah, but why do they use that?
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wapchimp
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binary coding? C C+ programming language. I have no idea 
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Ninjaturtle
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Oh come on people...
Everything is based on the power of 2.
256 colors.. 2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2
4096 colors 2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2
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Y?
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Superluminova
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most likely because some computer geek decided that it would be simple to follow.
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bossjohnc
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All to do with bits and bytes, and binary!
8 bits (which hold a max value of 255, = 11111111)
16 bits holds a max value of 65,535 = 1111111111111111, hence 16 bit colour.
The P900 has a 16 bit pallet, Excel uses a 16 bit addressing system.
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wapchimp
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just like binary  01110010100100010100110101010 ????????!!!!!!?????
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Lynx69
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most likely because some computer geek decided that it would be simple to follow.
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Yeah, easy to remember how to do it Thats very clever 
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Ninjaturtle
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No, it's not stupid, it's as a matter of fact the only way of adressing (either colors or adresses in an excel sheet) a computer would understand. Gee.. |
buckle247
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yeah memorys of my ict lessons late last year are coming through, 8bit and 16bit binary coding etc. memory always doubles, 256, 512, 1024 etc. A Mb is 1024k in size not 1000k due to this reason.
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wapchimp
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 so I was right then
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