From dkoch@9online.fr Sat Oct 11 01:01:39 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sat, 11 Oct 2003 01:01:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ioskeha.hittite.isp.9tel.net ([62.62.156.27]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 1A8Egu-0002gy-3k for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2003 01:01:32 -0700 Received: from Kochise (unknown [62.39.210.111]) by ioskeha.hittite.isp.9tel.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C64F17B57D for ; Sat, 11 Oct 2003 10:00:56 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 10:01:01 +0200 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Gone 1 1/2 years, and some base number... References: <3F874050.4050203@bilkent.edu.tr> <20031010232232.GN2086@digitalkingdom.org> From: David KOCH Organization: 9Online Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-15 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20031010232232.GN2086@digitalkingdom.org> User-Agent: Opera7.20/Win32 M2 build 3144 X-archive-position: 6415 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: dkoch@9online.fr Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list > Le Fri, 10 Oct 2003 16:22:32 -0700, Robin Lee Powell > a écrit: > On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 02:27:12AM +0300, robin wrote: >> Hex is currently in vogue because we think binary computers are >> cool, but there is nothing to make it inherently superior. As a >> kid, I was a big fan of octal. > > Precisely. In fact, the utility of something whose only divisors > are powers of two is extremely questionable. > > Contrast to duodecimal (base 12) which is divisable by 2, 4, 3 and > 6, or base-60, which adds 5, 10, 20, 15, and 30. > > Which would *you* rather use in your daily life? > > Oh, and why are we having this discussion again? > > -Robin > Right, base 6 is one of the most useful base number (does 360° remind you something ?) ! Some interresting links on the subject... http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Indexes/HistoryTopics.html http://math.truman.edu/~thammond/history/NumberSystems.html http://www.ontologystream.com/beads/QuestionOfAccess/Syllabus.htm http://www.math.wichita.edu/history/topics/num-sys.html http://www.michielb.nl/maya/math.html (base 20) http://www.42explore.com/number.htm -- KOCH David aka Kochise