From slobin@ice.ru Mon Jun 18 15:55:21 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: slobin@ice.ru X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 18 Jun 2001 22:55:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 48755 invoked from network); 18 Jun 2001 22:55:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 18 Jun 2001 22:55:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO party.ice.ru) (213.85.36.62) by mta1 with SMTP; 18 Jun 2001 22:55:20 -0000 Received: from localhost (slobin@localhost) by party.ice.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) with ESMTP id CAA02810 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 02:55:18 +0400 X-Authentication-Warning: party.ice.ru: slobin owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 02:55:18 +0400 (MSD) To: Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: hexadecimal and lojban In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Cyril A Slobin On Mon, 18 Jun 2001 pycyn@aol.com wrote: > As the specification of bases makes clear, Lojban considers decimal as > fundamental. Anyway, duodecimal is the most convenient form for humans > (finger counting aside). In fact finger counting is even more convenient in duodecimal - four fingers have twelve phalanxes, and thumb is used for counting. Only one hand is used instead of two. BTW, how to say 'phalanx' and 'thumb' in Lojban? -- Cyril Slobin