humans and logic

[thinkit]

In article <slrn9id2cv.bhf.sill at sill.silmarill.org>, sill at optonline.net says...
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>On 12 Jun 2001 08:39:37 -0700, thinkit <thinkit8 at lycos.com> wrote:
>> humans should use a power of 2 as a base.  this is more logical because it
>>synchs with binary, which is at the very heart of logic--true and false.  it is
>> more natural perhaps, to use decimal--but logic should, and will, win out.
>> 
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>It's actually illogical to use binary for everything - it's simply too hard to
>write a large number in it. Try writing 1,388,034,093 in binary on a piece of
>paper
>then come back :-).
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>
>-- 
>Jupiter and Saturn Oberon Miranda
>And Titania Neptune Titan
>Stars can frighten
>        - Syd


i said powers of two, not two.  this would probably be octal or hexadecimal...i
like hexadecimal a lot more.