29 Jan
2021
29 Jan
'21
6:27 p.m.
If we'd thought about it we could count to 1023 on our fingers.
Dwight
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From: cctalk <cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org> on behalf of Chuck Guzis via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, January 29, 2021 6:19 PM
To: dwight via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Subject: Re: APL\360
On 1/29/21 5:55 PM, dwight via cctalk wrote:
My problem with words such as DAA is that I constantly
have to look them up to see exactly what they actually do. Finding alternate uses it all
about knowing what they actually do. I know what they were put there for ( to keep banker
happy ).
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
Such as 24 hours in a day, 60 minutes in an hour, and 50 seconds in a
minute?
Although decimal time has been proposed numerous times, somehow we can't
shake our Babylonian roots, even if we don't have 60 fingers.
--Chuck