29 Jan
2021
29 Jan
'21
6:46 p.m.
On 01/29/2021 7:55 PM dwight via cctalk <cctalk at
classiccmp.org> wrote:
I constantly see people claiming how much better decimal is than the English system of
meassurment. I don't really think that much of the decimal number system. If we'd
only been born with 8 fingers on each hand, computers would have been so much easier.
Thing like powers of 2 are easier to understand in binary.
Such is life. If only we'd known.
Dwight
Some knew
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octal#Usage