22 Sep
2004
22 Sep
'04
1:30 p.m.
There are plenty of electronic numbering systems;
things you'd think are
obvious, like Binary Coded Decimal bits weighted 8, 4, 2, 1, are not
obvious, there were/are a lot of other schemes.
I'm sure actual old timers could fill in a lot here.
Well, I was born before 7 April 1964, but I do know that some of the other
schemes were used in telemetry because they were 2 of 5 - sort of like
built-in stupid parity.
William Donzelli
aw288(a)osfn.org