But you don't have the problem of misrounding because of a conversion from octal to beinary before you start.
-- hendrik On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 08:28:33PM +0100, Stephan Houben wrote: > In octal you have the same issue, how do you round octal 0.4 ? > > No, we should be using an odd base, say base-5. Fingers and thumb of one > hand. No central digit to cause rounding ambiguity. > > Stephan > > Stephan Houben > Op 29 nov. 2012 20:02 schreef "Hendrik Boom" <hend...@topoi.pooq.com> het > volgende: > > > All these problems that would have been avoided if we had just started > > out counting on our fingers instead of out fingers and thumbs! > > > > -- hendrik > > k > > ____________________ > > Racket Users list: > > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users > > ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
