APL\360

wrcooke at wrcooke.net wrcooke at wrcooke.net
Fri Jan 29 20:46:24 CST 2021


> 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


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