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What if there was only two kind of coins: zeros and ones? To pay a 20 FIM
bill, you should have six zero coins and two ones. And you should put them
in the correct order on the table to get the sum right.
20 FIM (non-binary) would be 0000000000010100 binary FIM (in 16 bit monetary
economy).
Of course, because the bartender would see the coins from the opposite
direction, he would think that it was 0010100000000000 FIM. That's 10240
non-binary FIM.
On the payday there would be maybe some problems. To pay you 10000
(non-binary) FIM, the employer should give 0010011100010000 binary FIM. But
if you'd get 5 ones and 11 zeros, you could put them in any order. In max,
you could get 63488 out of that amount of ones and zeros.
Then again, think about the positive side: If the whole economy was built in
16 bit binary money, nobody could own more than 65535 (non-binary) FIM. And
the more money you have, the harder it's to cheat with that "opposite
direction" trick. 1111111111111111 binary FIM is 65535, no matter how you
look at it. If you look at 1111111111111110 from the wrong direction
(0111111111111111), you'd see 32767 (non-binary) FIM. You'd _lose_ money by
cheating.
The other positive thing is, that you'd have only 16 coins in your wallet
all the time. Handy!
---> Jarmo Lundgren, multimediatsaari
Helsingin Sanomat, Verkkoliite
p. 09-1227554 / 040-5345868
"Less is moo." - The Holy Mad Cow
