Subject: Re: [lojban] periodic hexadecimal reminder

From: Robin Lee Powell <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 22:19:48 -0700

On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 01:10:24AM -0400, Invent Yourself wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Sep 2001 [email-masked] wrote:
> 
> > this is just a post to remind everyone that hexadecimal is the
> > future, and lojban is by default hexadecimal. rafsi will be assigned
> > for dau-vai, and "ju'u dau" will be used for references to the old
> > way of doing things.
> 
> 
> 
> What are the benefits of hex that outweigh the enormous, trillion dollar
> investment in decimal infrastructure?

Especially since 16 isn't as divisible as either 12 or 60, and hence
could easily be argued to be inferior to both of those.

-Robin

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