From pycyn@aol.com Tue Jun 19 13:57:48 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 19 Jun 2001 20:57:48 -0000 Received: (qmail 73923 invoked from network); 19 Jun 2001 20:57:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 19 Jun 2001 20:57:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-r03.mx.aol.com) (152.163.225.99) by mta1 with SMTP; 19 Jun 2001 20:57:47 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-r03.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v30.22.) id r.125.7f4e7a (4556) for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 16:57:43 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <125.7f4e7a.286116c6@aol.com> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 16:57:42 EDT Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: hexadecimal and lojban To: lojban@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_125.7f4e7a.286116c6_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows US sub 10519 From: pycyn@aol.com --part1_125.7f4e7a.286116c6_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Well, since base 60 came up ... But it is hard to get the digits for it. The point about duodecimal is that it makes for tidier math (.3 instead of .25, .4 instead of .3333333333... and so on). Same for most other functions that have real use (1/10 is important only because of base 10). Of course, nothing helps with months and years. --part1_125.7f4e7a.286116c6_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Well, since base 60 came up ... But it is hard to get the digits for it. The
point about duodecimal is that it makes for tidier math (.3 instead of .25,
.4 instead of .3333333333... and so on). Same for most other functions that
have real use (1/10 is important only because of base 10). Of course,
nothing helps with months and years. --part1_125.7f4e7a.286116c6_boundary--