From jspickes@etrademail.com Thu Nov 15 09:43:10 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: jspickes@cc96364-a.hwrd1.md.home.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_0_1); 15 Nov 2001 17:43:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 19289 invoked from network); 15 Nov 2001 17:43:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.171) by m11.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 15 Nov 2001 17:43:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cc96364-a.hwrd1.md.home.com) (24.23.49.116) by mta3.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 15 Nov 2001 17:43:09 -0000 Received: from jspickes by cc96364-a.hwrd1.md.home.com with local (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 164QX5-0001aG-00 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 12:42:35 -0500 Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 12:42:35 -0500 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Introduction, and zutse/se sutse Message-ID: <20011115124235.A21465@cc96364-a.hwrd1.md.home.com> Reply-To: jspickes@etrademail.com References: <20011112133346.A8718@cc96364-a.hwrd1.md.home.com> <9spmm1+t7a9@eGroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9spmm1+t7a9@eGroups.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i X-eGroups-From: jspickes@cc96364-a.hwrd1.md.home.com From: jspickes@etrademail.com On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 11:40:48PM -0000, thinkit8@lycos.com wrote: > what do you think about the movement to use hexadecimal as the > default lojban base? To be honest, I haven't read much regarding the "movement". I think making hex the default base has good and bad qualities, and it depends largely on what your goals for the language are. I think it's arguable that hex is more "logical" than decimal, for reasons lots of people have described already. If your goal is simply to make lojban more logical, I think a switch to hex might be appropriate. On the other hand, if your goal is to get more people to speak lojban, I think switching to hex is probably a bad idea. Essentially everyone in the world who knows how to do math is already familiar with decimal. Relatively speaking, a small number of people are very familiar with hex math. Regardless of the ease or difficulty of hexadecimal math, pressuring new lojbanists to use hex is probably repellant. Just my thoughts. co'o mi'e djan.