From jay.kominek@colorado.edu Fri Sep 28 22:12:03 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: kominek@ucsub.colorado.edu X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_4_1); 29 Sep 2001 05:12:03 -0000 Received: (qmail 53672 invoked from network); 29 Sep 2001 05:12:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 29 Sep 2001 05:12:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ucsub.colorado.edu) (128.138.129.12) by mta2 with SMTP; 29 Sep 2001 05:12:01 -0000 Received: from ucsub.colorado.edu (kominek@ucsub.colorado.edu [128.138.129.12]) by ucsub.colorado.edu (8.11.6/8.11.2/ITS-5.0/student) with ESMTP id f8T5C0d09539 for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 23:12:00 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 23:12:00 -0600 (MDT) To: Subject: RE: [lojban] periodic hexadecimal reminder In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE From: Jay Kominek On Sat, 29 Sep 2001, Craig wrote: > Seeing as lojban has already chosen to use a higher base than would be > neutral, why not go to hex? I had felt that decimal was neutral, though I > had not known how ancient Egypt counted, but I like higher bases because > when you have to say out every digit as in lojban they are much less > verbose. My pgp key id in Lojban: in hex it is mugaicidaupaxeizevo, but i= n > decimal it is pamuvozeciparezemuxa - 8 vs 10 syllables. And the differenc= e > is greater with larger numbers. Obviously then, we should use base 64. Or maybe base 85? Hrm. Or possibly base 128, with huffman compression? Ah! Base 1343! We can use all the gismu, in alphabetical order, as digits! Wait. We can use all the cmavo, too! So, base 1938! Where do you draw the line, and why is your line better? - Jay Kominek Plus =C3=A7a change, plus c'est la m=C3=AAme chose