From thinkit8@lycos.com Tue Sep 25 23:21:54 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: thinkit8@lycos.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2_2); 26 Sep 2001 06:21:53 -0000 Received: (qmail 15461 invoked from network); 26 Sep 2001 06:21:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 26 Sep 2001 06:21:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO n19.groups.yahoo.com) (10.1.2.2) by mta1 with SMTP; 26 Sep 2001 06:21:53 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: thinkit8@lycos.com Received: from [10.1.10.121] by mw.egroups.com with NNFMP; 26 Sep 2001 06:21:51 -0000 Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 06:21:50 -0000 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: periodic hexadecimal reminder Message-ID: <9ors5u+g8bq@eGroups.com> In-Reply-To: <20010925221948.Y10550@digitalkingdom.org> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 1376 X-Mailer: eGroups Message Poster X-Originating-IP: 24.4.255.70 From: thinkit8@lycos.com i'll touch on both here... --- In lojban@y..., Robin Lee Powell wrote: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 01:10:24AM -0400, Invent Yourself wrote: > > On Wed, 26 Sep 2001 thinkit8@l... 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? this is a lojban group. we aim to replace enormous, trillion dollar investments in (mainly) english infrastucture. using hex is minor compared to this task. and as for the benefits...it's the attunement to logic that makes powers of 2 more useful. > 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 everything you mentioned is already in use. how many ounces in a pound? inches in a foot? seconds in a minute? just because we use hex for most things doesn't mean other bases can't be used. > -- > 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/