From b.gohla@gmx.de Sun Nov 11 00:30:44 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: b.gohla@gmx.de X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_0_1); 11 Nov 2001 08:30:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 16137 invoked from network); 11 Nov 2001 08:30:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.167) by m4.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 11 Nov 2001 08:30:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.gmx.net) (213.165.64.20) by mta1.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 11 Nov 2001 08:30:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 28966 invoked by uid 0); 11 Nov 2001 08:30:42 -0000 Received: from b7a67.pppool.de (HELO linux) (213.7.122.103) by mail.gmx.net (mp011-rz3) with SMTP; 11 Nov 2001 08:30:42 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Reply-To: b.gohla@gmx.de To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: no need to worry about bases (was: Re: [lojban] Re: possible A-F...) Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 10:35:11 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01111110351100.01126@linux> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: =?utf-8?q?Bj=C3=B6rn=20Gohla?= X-Yahoo-Profile: badbirdde -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 11 November 2001 00:47, And Rosta wrote: > This goes over my head. As far as I can gather, your reasons for > favouring 16 have to do with mathematical aesthetics, while everyone > else's are utilitatian (either 10 because it's familiar, or 12 > because it's convenient for daily life). If I am right about that, > then we need not disagree, because while I am competent to judge > what would be useful to me in daily life, I'm not competent to > make judgements about mathematical aesthetics. as far as i can say from my mathematical knowledge, aesthecics in that fiel= d=20 clearly favours reduced fractions, which are adequate to represent any=20 rational number. i would never even think about writing 0.333... for 10=20 divided by 3, just 1/3 instead.=20 - --=20 - -------------------- HARDFAIL("Not enough magic."); 2.4.0-test2 /usr/src/linux/drivers/block/nbd.c pub 1024D/834F4976 2001-01-07 Bj=C3=B6rn Gohla (Wissenschaftler, Weltb=C3= =BCrger)=20 Key fingerprint =3D 9FF4 FEDA CCDF DA0E 14D5 8129 6C14 3C39 834F 4976 sub 1024g/29571FE2 2001-01-07 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE77kZUbBQ8OYNPSXYRAvBTAKCeKblBM4MomE3ZDsb56b/T0c90LgCfQi1v 8Oxwwred8kcwAqMHZyh37/8=3D =3DU0Qu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----