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Re: hexadecimal and lojban



--- In lojban@y..., pycyn@a... wrote:
> In a message dated 6/18/2001 2:39:19 AM Central Daylight Time, 
> thinkit8@l... writes:
> 
> 
> > anyway, i was hoping the creators really 
> > made dau-vai with the hope of hexadecimal as default in the 
future.
> > 
> 
> As the specification of bases makes clear, Lojban considers decimal 
as 
> fundamental.  Anyway, duodecimal is the most convenient form for 
humans 
> (finger counting aside).

duodecimal is fine...lojban can handle it just fine with dau fei.  
but since lojban has 0x10 voiced digits, i can only assume they meant 
for hexadecimal to be standard--at least in the future.