All your base(16) are belong to us

We've been messing with multiple number bases in two of my classes. In Computer Organization and Networking we've been messing with binary, octal decimal and hexadecimal. I started looking into all the different number bases, and there are a lot, and some of the cultures that used them. For instance, we use a base 10 system (decimal) and the Mayans used a base 20. The Babylonians used a base 60 system.(Insane) Anyway, there's a guy in one of my classes that breaks into a cold sweat when we start talking subnet masking or IEEE 754 floating number standard. Tell him to convert a 32 bit hex number with the 754 standard and he whimpers and cries. 64-bit? He wet himself. Poor guy. You take CIS because they tell you there's no math and now this. Tsk tsk.