28 May
2010
28 May
'10
6:46 p.m.
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
I personally do not like 10 as a base of a number
system or unit system.
Systesm based on powees of 2 seem a lot more convneinet. And there are
rather mroe powers of 2 in the imperial system. But as I said I can work
in any units (provided I can find a conversion factor to something I know).
You should read a couple of short essays by the great Frederik Pohl:
"How to Count on Your Fingers," 1956
"On Binary Digits and Human Habits," 1962
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