Reboot.
Note - As I have 320M of RAM myself, I puzzled at what value to enter… Here’s the solution I found. I give it to you to consider but cannot take any responsability :
-My question was, how does one obtain 1000 from 64, 4000 from 128, 10000 from 256 and 40000 from 512. I figured that if I could solve this puzzle, I could then calculate the amount in hex to enter for 320M.
Somehow it dawned on me : if you take your calculator in scientific mode and multiply 64 (in dec) by itself, then change the result in hex, you get 1000. The same goes for all the others. Example : 128 X 128 = 16384 (dec) = 4000 (hex), And so forth.
So I multiplied 320 X 320 = 102400. I transformed that in hex, and got : 19000.
And that’s the value I entered.
(Later, I checked that registry entry to realize it had changed itself to 20000. So I figure I couldn’t have been so wrong…)
-My question was, how does one obtain 1000 from 64, 4000 from 128, 10000 from 256 and 40000 from 512. I figured that if I could solve this puzzle, I could then calculate the amount in hex to enter for 320M.
Somehow it dawned on me : if you take your calculator in scientific mode and multiply 64 (in dec) by itself, then change the result in hex, you get 1000. The same goes for all the others. Example : 128 X 128 = 16384 (dec) = 4000 (hex), And so forth.
So I multiplied 320 X 320 = 102400. I transformed that in hex, and got : 19000.
And that’s the value I entered.
(Later, I checked that registry entry to realize it had changed itself to 20000. So I figure I couldn’t have been so wrong…)
posted by rufus at 2:49 PM
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