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Re: Metric Time (was Re: Why not 13 months? (Was La Systeme Metrique))
Maynard Handley (handleym@apple.com)
12 Oct 1995 07:00:57 GMT
In article <45ctdp$ouj@ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> WAYNE JOHNSON,
ciacon@ix.netcom.com writes:
>Erik Dahl is too shy to actually back up what he says when he writes:
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>>>
>>>[blah blah blah]
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>>the proper solution is for everyone to switch
>>to a base 12 number & measurement system.
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>>until then, i may stop reading this thread.
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>> --ed.
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>Yeah, right. I can get to ten with my fingers; eleven with my nose;
>twelve, I need to unzip my pants.
>
>You gotta come up with something better than that, or else bail me out
>when they bust me for counting Girl Scouts.
>
Regardless of the merits of base, why are there so many people who think
the way you count has something to do with the number of fingers you
have? Did you people learn nothing in elementary school?
Look, plenty of computer people deal with hex every day, and none that
I've ever known do it by roping it parts of their body beyond their
finges.
The WHOLE POINT of things like a positional number system is to decouple
counting and arithmetic and stuff from a one-to-one correspondence with
parts of the body.
Maynard
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