> On 01/29/2021 7:55 PM dwight via cctalk <cctalk@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