From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Mon Nov 12 10:51:29 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_0_1); 12 Nov 2001 18:51:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 14836 invoked from network); 12 Nov 2001 18:51:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.172) by m8.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 12 Nov 2001 18:51:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.169.75.101) by mta2.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 12 Nov 2001 18:51:28 -0000 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 163MBD-0001Ta-00 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 10:51:35 -0800 Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 10:51:35 -0800 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: possible A-F... Message-ID: <20011112105135.B5469@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: <2b.1c20df01.28eb22e0@aol.com> <9sjcui+42vm@eGroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9sjcui+42vm@eGroups.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i From: Robin Lee Powell X-Yahoo-Profile: robinleepowell On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 02:17:54PM -0000, bloke_without_a_favourite_colour@yahoo.co.uk wrote: > 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? Because ease of divisibility is Very Important in everyday life. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. le datni cu djica le nu zifre .iku'i .oi le so'e datni cu to'e te pilno je xlali -- RLP http://www.lojban.org/