>>>>> Mensanator <mensana...@aol.com> (M) wrote: >M> That's my point. Since the common usage of "binary" is for >M> Standard Positional Number System of Radix 2, it follows >M> that "unary" is the common usage for Standard Positional >M> Number System of Radix 1. That's VERY confusing since such >M> a system is undefined. Remember, common usage does not >M> necessarily properly define things. Saying simply "unary" >M> sounds like you're extending common usage beyond its proper >M> boundaries.
But the customary meaning of `unary' is the tally system, as a radix system wouldn't make sense. I don't know when this term came into use but I have known it for a long time. -- Piet van Oostrum <p...@cs.uu.nl> URL: http://pietvanoostrum.com [PGP 8DAE142BE17999C4] Private email: p...@vanoostrum.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
