From thinkit8@lycos.com Mon Jun 18 16:35:21 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: thinkit8@lycos.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 18 Jun 2001 23:35:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 57079 invoked from network); 18 Jun 2001 23:35:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 18 Jun 2001 23:35:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ej.egroups.com) (64.211.240.230) by mta2 with SMTP; 18 Jun 2001 23:35:13 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: thinkit8@lycos.com Received: from [10.1.2.25] by ej.egroups.com with NNFMP; 18 Jun 2001 23:34:31 -0000 Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 23:34:27 -0000 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: hexadecimal and lojban Message-ID: <9gm363+7j9f@eGroups.com> In-Reply-To: User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 635 X-Mailer: eGroups Message Poster X-Originating-IP: 24.5.121.32 From: thinkit8@lycos.com --- In lojban@y..., pycyn@a... wrote: > In a message dated 6/18/2001 2:39:19 AM Central Daylight Time, > thinkit8@l... writes: > > > > anyway, i was hoping the creators really > > made dau-vai with the hope of hexadecimal as default in the future. > > > > As the specification of bases makes clear, Lojban considers decimal as > fundamental. Anyway, duodecimal is the most convenient form for humans > (finger counting aside). duodecimal is fine...lojban can handle it just fine with dau fei. but since lojban has 0x10 voiced digits, i can only assume they meant for hexadecimal to be standard--at least in the future.