humans and logic

[thinkit]

In article <3b266270$1_7 at news5.uncensored-news.com>, Doug says...
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>thinkit wrote:
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>> 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.
>> 
>> 
>Why shouldn't I use whatever base I find convenient at the moment: 2, 10, 
>16, 60.... If I need to communicate a number to you, my software agent or 
>PDA should convert it to whatever units you are using at the moment.  Note 
>that the movement to convert the U.S. to the metric system is fading away.  
>If I need to give you a measurement in I can convert it to cm, or cubits, 
>or whatever.
>
>Instead of having a single monolithic number base, or measurement system, 
>(or programming language) why shouldn't we have hundreds or thousands or 
>millions?  We've got these computers now, we don't need to count on our 
>fingers or measure with our feets.
>-- 
>Doug Fort <dougfort at downright.com>
>Senior Meat Manager
>Downright Software LLC
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i should quote you on that..."we don't need to count on your fingers".  in my
quest to convert the world to hexadecimal, i've heard the "you have fingers for
decimal" argument countless times!  you present a different argument than most. 
i'm not against using all the bases we might want...but we all need a general
purpose base.  decimal is that now, and hexadecimal would make a better choice.