Dear Friends,
I accept my shortcomings in building nomenclature; so let's drop
the question of "maal's...
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Indranil Das Gupta wrote:
******Partha-da:
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******> From: Partha Pratim Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
******>
******> Indra has lately switched onto a different 16-ary number system;
******> can it be christened "tuxmal" ? (here 10 comes after F)...
******
******Why do we need a new name for hexadecimal? On the long run consider the
possibility that it could end up sounding
******something like "tux-maal" in the speech of the common man.... wouldn't the
"maal" part be rather insulting to the cause
******of Linux??? ;-)
******
******So the future of "tuxmal" sounds kinda dismal ..whaddya say? :D
******
******Cheers,
******--Indra.
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Partha Pratim Ghosh
Rev. Goreaux Centre for Higher Mathematics
Department of Mathematics
St. Xavier's College
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Calcutta 700016
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