From thinkit8@lycos.com Sun Sep 30 19:39:34 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: thinkit8@lycos.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_4_1); 1 Oct 2001 02:39:34 -0000 Received: (qmail 68438 invoked from network); 1 Oct 2001 02:39:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 1 Oct 2001 02:39:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO n17.groups.yahoo.com) (10.1.1.36) by mta1 with SMTP; 1 Oct 2001 02:39:33 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: thinkit8@lycos.com Received: from [10.1.10.107] by mq.egroups.com with NNFMP; 01 Oct 2001 02:39:33 -0000 Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 02:39:31 -0000 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: possible A-F... Message-ID: <9p8l13+gfff@eGroups.com> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 591 X-Mailer: eGroups Message Poster X-Originating-IP: 24.4.255.70 From: thinkit8@lycos.com ok, making sure not to look at historical numerals, which is looking outward for answers instead of inward, i sketched what could by symbols A-F. basically i looked at a standard 8-segment display and saw what was easy to draw and also didn't have the rotation problem of 6 and 9. here's what i came up with: *** * * * *** *** * * * * * * * *** *** *** * *** * * * * * * * * * * *** * that's 10-15, in order. now all i have to do is wait generations to have hexadecimal accepted, then more generations for the numbers to be standardized.