From pnewton@gmx.de Mon Oct 13 01:21:21 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 13 Oct 2003 01:21:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from postman1.arcor-online.net ([151.189.0.187] helo=postman.arcor.de) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 1A8xwx-0004ah-6T for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 01:21:07 -0700 Received: from hamwpne1 ([212.13.198.90]) (authenticated bits=0) by postman.arcor.de (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h9D8L1am002930 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 10:21:02 +0200 (MEST) From: "Philip Newton" Organization: datenrevision GmbH & Co. OHG To: lojban-list@lojban.org Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 10:20:56 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: [lojban] Re: Gone 1 1/2 years, and some base number... Message-ID: <3F8A7C88.28889.5066D6@localhost> Priority: normal References: <20031011190726.GR2086@digitalkingdom.org> In-reply-to: <1065900012.10661.8.camel@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.02a) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-description: Mail message body X-archive-position: 6427 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: pnewton@gmx.de Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On 11 Oct 2003 at 12:20, Theodore Reed wrote: > In Heinlein's Future History, Lazarus Long's ship uses base-120 to make > it easy to convert between all the various systems in use in the many > places it must visit. They'd have to use base-240 to accommodate the hexadecimalists, though. mu'o mi'e .filip. -- filip.niutyn.