At 01:21 PM Thursday 12/22/2005, Max Battcher wrote:
Robert J. Chassell wrote:
I am curious, because of my fury that in the Middle Ages, Christian
Europe adopted an Indian/Arabic base 10 numerical system rather than
the better base 12 system. Base 12 fits the number of Christian
Apostles. It fits the number of eggs in dozen. In base 12, you can
count on one hand.
As a person who has had to work across radixes it is much easier to
deal with radixes that are powers of two (binary, base 4, octal,
hexadecimal) than any other arbitrary base. There's a reason
computers use binary or unary.
Base 12 sounds ridiculous, and all the more ridiculous for your
religious ranting and racism.
I'm sure you all know the answer to this one: What do you get if you
multiply six by nine? You need to count Judas . . .
--Ronn! :)
"Since I was a small boy, two states have been added to our country
and two words have been added to the pledge of Allegiance... UNDER
GOD. Wouldn't it be a pity if someone said that is a prayer and that
would be eliminated from schools too?"
-- Red Skelton
(Someone asked me to change my .sig quote back, so I did.)
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