On 1/29/21 9:19 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
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.
And what's with these 12 months of different lengths? :-)
bill
