APL\360

[dwight]

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