humans and logic

[thinkit]

In article <3b27823b.19626140 at news.btinternet.com>,
danny.ayers_nospam at btinternet.com says...
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>On 12 Jun 2001 08:39:37 -0700, thinkit <thinkit8 at lycos.com> 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.
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>the main use of numbers is in numerical operations such as counting,
>not logical ones
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>what would tbe he advantage in using powers of 2 be anyway? isn't the
>idea of computers for them to do this kind of work for us?

well we can have computers do our work easier since we'll be speaking on
hexadecimal.