Wrong, anything digital uses base 2. It's just the nature of digital, there is either electricity or there is not. When you start measuring the level of the electricity, you enter the analog world.
Not at all: you can have digital things that use base 3, 4, or other bases and, in fact, most modern signalling technology (56 k modems, 100 Mbps Ethernet, digital television) uses very large bases (e.g., 256). It's a trade-off: the larger the base, the more care you have to take in recovering the signal and the less loss budget you have. Think of the difference between a DC signal and one with a frequency of, say, .00001 sec. In any event, you're confusing "base 10" with BCD. Calculators indeed use base 2, but they do their math in base 10 using BCD. So they don't have the base 2 representation problems. Craig _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
