humans and logic

Greg Ewing see at my.signature
Tue Jun 12 22:18:10 EDT 2001


thinkit wrote:
> 
> we all need a general
> purpose base.  decimal is that now, and hexadecimal would make a better choice.

And if you use hands and feet, and exclude thumbs and
big toes, you can even do it on your appendages
if you really want.

We need six more digit symbols, though. Borrowing
letters was okay as an interim measure, but we need
to move on. Any proposed designs?

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Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, University of Canterbury,	  
Christchurch, New Zealand
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