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fredag den 11. oktober 2019 kl. 17.33.52 UTC+2 skrev @TiddlyTweeter: > > Hi Mark S. > > I am. "The Art Of Memory" by Frances Yates is a favourite social history > book of mine that puts it in context. > Its very likely that the associative systems for memory by "loci" actually > emerged from simple body part enumeration systems. > > Its a rich legacy oral cultures bequeathed us. > > And early thinkers about what would eventually become the internet derived > many of their concepts from the "arts of memory". > > BTW, you probably don't remember this thread :-) ... > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/tiddlywiki/Q4yLWNn5CKs/YVxdHp9_BgAJ in > which you wrote interesting things. > > > TT > > On Friday, 11 October 2019 16:59:51 UTC+2, Mark S. wrote: >> >> Hi TT, >> >> Are you familiar with mnemonic techniques? A very common technique is to >> use one's own body to remember lists of things. >> >> Perhaps that is how the Oksapmin got its start. >> >> >> Ref: *Moon Walking with Einstein* by Joshua Foer, *The Memory Book* by >> Harry Lorayne and Jerry Lucas, *How To Develop a Brilliant Memory* by >> Dominic O'Brien >> >> On Friday, October 11, 2019 at 6:45:12 AM UTC-7, @TiddlyTweeter wrote: >>> >>> In another thread Mark S. presented a magic macro to convert from >>> decimal to other bases. >>> >>> I think its a rather marvellous bit of coding.* I have no idea how it >>> works*, but it does work well. >>> >>> Its a VERY good illustration of using TW macros to achieve something >>> specific in a direct very useful, economic way. >>> >>> This is my slight cosmetic re-order of it for converting decimal to >>> base-2 through to base-36. >>> >>> \define base-convertor(num,base,result:"") >>> <$list filter="[<__num__>remainder<__base__>add[1]]" variable=remidx> >>> <$list filter="[<__num__>divide<__base__>trunc[]]" variable=num> >>> <$list filter="[enlist<syms>nth<remidx>addsuffix<__result__>]" >>> variable="result"> >>> <$list filter="[<num>!regexp[^0$]]" emptyMessage=<<result>>> >>> <$macrocall $name=base-convertor num=<<num>> base="$base$" >>> result=<<result>>/> >>> </$list> >>> </$list> >>> </$list> >>> </$list> >>> \end >>> >>> \define re-base(base,num) >>> <$vars >>> syms="0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W >>> X Y Z" >>> > >>> <<base-convertor $num$ $base$>> >>> </$vars> >>> \end >>> >>> Syntax: re-base "base" "decimal input" >>> Supports base-2 to base-36. >>> >>> ;Examples >>> :1025 decimal = <<re-base 2 1025>> base 2 >>> :1025 decimal = <<re-base 10 1025>> base 10 >>> :1025 decimal = <<re-base 16 1025>> base 16 >>> :1025 decimal = <<re-base 26 1025>> base 26 >>> :1025 decimal = <<re-base 27 1025>> base 27 >>> :1025 decimal = <<re-base 36 1025>> base 36 >>> >>> >>> Partly Mark responded because I needed that tool to properly document >>> non-Westren body-part counting systems. >>> As soon as I had it up I wrote a note for a culture that counts in >>> base-27. I could not have done it without it. >>> >>> Thanks Mark! >>> >>> [image: Annotation 2019-10-11 145847.jpg] >>> >>> >>> Best wishes >>> TT >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/27691b9b-45c2-4f2f-99aa-cd7ed314ec4c%40googlegroups.com.
