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Dick, you are wrong

Yes, if you ever opened a bgl file in a hex editor you know how easy the hexadecimal notations are :). It takes some time to get used to, but they are much easier than the decimal notations when trying to understand a file format.
 
I wonder why there ain't some code in C# to do the conversions between QMid and DWORD and back. That would be best way how to show the things working. It's definitely not clear to me why author of the article didn't describe what he does with the b<sub>i</sub>. I miss some clues there. For example not clear the sentence: So we have b3 = 1, b2 = 0, b1 = 4, b0 = 5
but where did he took the numbers 1 0 4 5 from? What kind of conversion he used to get these. Or the sentence: Then for each ai, we compute the corresponding bi: ... but there is not writen how to compute. There is written "where bi are the coefficients of the output value in base-16" but I don't see there the coefficients are used. In the example he uses different numbers no the 0 1 4 5 but 1 0 4 5 (0x1045) which gives 4165. So I don't see any coefficient. For conversion in oposite direction DWORD to QMid same problem. The last table in the article on bottom of the page, 4th row, the numbers v<sub>i</sub> ... 5 5 1 0
they are not showed in the example, so again missing some clue.
 
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arno said:
Yes, if you ever opened a bgl file in a hex editor you know how easy the hexadecimal notations are :). It takes some time to get used to, but they are much easier than the decimal notations when trying to understand a file format.
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But for reading binary files I rather use decimal numbers as size. It's more readable for me. Maybe expert programmers have different practice.
 
I think this thread is done - it seems to me that there is nothing left to be said. I will not close it but unless there is something substantive to add please leave it as it is.
 
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