On 13, Sep 2007, at 18:22, Andy Greener wrote: > Yes, if we'd had eight fingers instead, and an octal system of > counting instead of decimal, I suspect that the mechanisation of > binary arithmetic would have been developed far earlier, perhaps long > before the discovery of electricity.
Makes me wonder how things might have evolved had the 3 toed sloth the wit and need to invent the computer. Beeky
