From ragnarok@pobox.com Fri Oct 10 15:15:56 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: ragnarok@pobox.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 4300 invoked from network); 10 Oct 2003 22:15:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.166) by m3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 10 Oct 2003 22:15:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp.intrex.net) (209.42.192.250) by mta5.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 10 Oct 2003 22:15:55 -0000 Received: from craig [209.42.212.114] by smtp.intrex.net (SMTPD32-7.13) id AF9F160194; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 18:15:59 -0400 To: Subject: RE: [lojban] Gone 1 1/2 years... Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 18:15:50 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal X-Declude-Sender: ragnarok@pobox.com [209.42.212.114] From: "Craig" X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=48763382 X-Yahoo-Profile: kreig_daniyl X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 20892 >Is the default radix still decimal? I had argued it should be >hexadecimal. There is a good case to be made for both hex and dozenal. HOWEVER, Lojban is trying to be easy for people. Not as its primary goal, obviously, but we don't want to alienate all of our learners. Making the non-mathematically-inclined people who might want to learn the language have to jump through hoops to understand all of our numbers is the worng way to go about spreading the language, no matter how good the reasons for the change. Consequently, if a proposal came before the BPFK to make the default radix be hex, I would vote it down. Not because hex is harmful - it isn't - but because the change would make it harder for new people to learn Lojban, thus making it harder for Lojban to spread. -- .kreig.daniyl. "mi'a te cmene ra lu ractu cafmi'a li'u ki'u le nu ra ctuca mi'a" -Alice in Wonderland ragnarok@pobox.com teucer@bnomic.org