[lojban-beginners] Re: [SPAM Verdacht] - Re: Why 16 - Bayesian Fi lter detected spam

["Newton, Philip" <Philip.Newton@gedas-onsite.de>]

la snan cu cusku di'e
> Speaking in hexadecimal with only ten numerals is annoying since
> there'd be ambiguity between B5 {papa mu} and 1F {pa pamu}, so we
> need at least sixteen.

I see no ambiguity; {papa mu}, {pa pamu}, {papamu}, and {pa pa mu} all
unambiguously mean "115".

If you want to speak in hexadecimal with only ten numerals, use {pi'e}, just
as you'd need to use, say, base-20 or base-60 or even other geeky pursuits
such as base-64.

You'd then have {papa pi'e mu} vs {pa pi'e pamu}.

> As few as possible + at least sixteen -> sixteen.

You still haven't given any reason for "at least sixteen" (as opposed to,
say, "at least twenty").

My guess is that the originators were mathematical/comp.sci geeks and wanted
to be able to speak hexadecimal without recourse to {pi'e}.

mu'o mi'e .filip.