From bloke_without_a_favourite_colour@yahoo.co.uk Sat Nov 10 06:17:59 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: bloke_without_a_favourite_colour@yahoo.co.uk X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_0_1); 10 Nov 2001 14:18:02 -0000 Received: (qmail 44870 invoked from network); 10 Nov 2001 14:18:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.171) by m12.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 10 Nov 2001 14:18:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO n25.groups.yahoo.com) (216.115.96.75) by mta3.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 10 Nov 2001 14:17:59 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: bloke_without_a_favourite_colour@yahoo.co.uk Received: from [10.1.10.132] by n25.groups.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 10 Nov 2001 14:17:40 -0000 Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 14:17:54 -0000 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: possible A-F... Message-ID: <9sjcui+42vm@eGroups.com> In-Reply-To: <2b.1c20df01.28eb22e0@aol.com> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 982 X-Mailer: eGroups Message Poster X-Originating-IP: 62.64.191.187 From: bloke_without_a_favourite_colour@yahoo.co.uk X-Yahoo-Profile: bloke_without_a_favourite_colour --- In lojban@y..., pycyn@a... wrote: > The competitors to hex are not binary and quartenary by decimal and > duodecimal and, rationality notwithstanding, decimal wins hands down. > Rationality coming into play would have duodecimal winning. Hex comes after > 60, probably. Binary, quaternary, decimal, duodecimal, hexadecimal, sexagesimal (base 60) and in fact number systems with a base of any integer greater than 1 are all possible, and so I suppose could be considered to be competitors. But why do you think duodecimal is the most rational choice? What is rational about sexagesimal either? 12 and 60 do both have a relatively large number of divisors compared with their size, but why does that make them more rational choices? Incidentally, if it's numbers with a relatively large number of divisors compared with their size that you want, considering integers up to 60 only, 6, 24, 36, and 48 are all possibilities too. Sincerely, Robert