If we'd thought about it we could count to 1023 on our fingers. Dwight
________________________________ From: cctalk <cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org> on behalf of Chuck Guzis via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> Sent: Friday, January 29, 2021 6:19 PM To: dwight via cctalk <cctalk@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
