From rob@twcny.rr.com Sat Sep 29 10:08:15 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rob@twcny.rr.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_4_1); 29 Sep 2001 17:06:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 23920 invoked from network); 29 Sep 2001 17:06:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by 10.1.1.221 with QMQP; 29 Sep 2001 17:06:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mailout5.nyroc.rr.com) (24.92.226.169) by mta1 with SMTP; 29 Sep 2001 17:08:14 -0000 Received: from mail1.twcny.rr.com (mail1-1 [24.92.226.139]) by mailout5.nyroc.rr.com (8.11.6/Road Runner 1.12) with ESMTP id f8TH8Co24228 for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2001 13:08:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from riff ([24.92.246.4]) by mail1.twcny.rr.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-59787U250000L250000S0V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2001 13:07:13 -0400 Received: from rob by riff with local (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 15nNaS-0000NL-00 for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2001 13:07:36 -0400 Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 13:07:36 -0400 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: periodic hexadecimal reminder Message-ID: <20010929130736.A1389@twcny.rr.com> Reply-To: rob@twcny.rr.com References: <9p3n2p+8msr@eGroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9p3n2p+8msr@eGroups.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i X-Is-It-Not-Nifty: www.sluggy.com From: Rob Speer X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 11190 On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 05:43:53AM -0000, thinkit8@lycos.com wrote: > it's pretty simple. 16 is a power of 2. 8 is too, but the exponent > is not itself a power of 2. 4 is nice, however--i should look into > those egyptians. 4 is actually very intrinsic to us--being the base > of our DNA. 16 is the most usable of all these, though. .i xu ma poi na nu pilno lo skami cu prali fi lenu pilno lo namcu jicmu poi ponse pa po'o ralnamcu se pilji .i da zo'u ko troci lenu ciska lo saclu be le dilcu be li pa bei da kei a lenu facki ledu'u dilcu de da li no kei va'o ledu'u da na du li re te'a no'o .i la'edi'u na melbi ("What, besides using a computer, is the advantage of using a base which has only one prime factor? Try to write a decimal of the fraction 1/something, or find whether something divides something else evenly, when that something is not a power of two. It's not pretty.") -- la rab.spir noi sarji zo gumri