From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Tue Sep 25 22:19:42 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2_2); 26 Sep 2001 05:18:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 64949 invoked from network); 26 Sep 2001 05:18:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by 10.1.1.223 with QMQP; 26 Sep 2001 05:18:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.169.75.101) by mta2 with SMTP; 26 Sep 2001 05:19:42 -0000 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 15m76q-0006pq-00 for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 22:19:48 -0700 Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 22:19:48 -0700 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] periodic hexadecimal reminder Message-ID: <20010925221948.Y10550@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: <9orgpt+2n84@eGroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22i From: Robin Lee Powell On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 01:10:24AM -0400, Invent Yourself wrote: > On Wed, 26 Sep 2001 thinkit8@lycos.com 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 -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. le datni cu djica le nu zifre .iku'i .oi le so'e datni cu to'e te pilno je xlali -- RLP http://www.lojban.org/