From arosta@uclan.ac.uk Wed Sep 26 10:54:50 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: arosta@uclan.ac.uk X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2_2); 26 Sep 2001 17:53:37 -0000 Received: (qmail 610 invoked from network); 26 Sep 2001 17:53:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by 10.1.1.220 with QMQP; 26 Sep 2001 17:53:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO com1.uclan.ac.uk) (193.61.255.3) by mta3 with SMTP; 26 Sep 2001 17:54:50 -0000 Received: from gwise-gw1.uclan.ac.uk by com1.uclan.ac.uk with SMTP (Mailer); Wed, 26 Sep 2001 18:32:23 +0100 Received: from DI1-Message_Server by gwise-gw1.uclan.ac.uk with Novell_GroupWise; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 19:03:25 +0100 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 5.5.2 Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 19:03:18 +0100 To: lojban Subject: Re: [lojban] periodic hexadecimal reminder Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline From: And Rosta jimc: #Drifting off topic again: in heptal or duodecimal or decimal or hex or #whatever, how do you write the radix? 10, of course. The solution I used #in the proprietary radix extension was to have the user specify radix-1, #that is, 6 -> heptal, f -> hex, 9 -> decimal, etc. ... another of those gems of ingenuity that so delightfully and so frequently ornament this list. --And.