At 15:03 -0700 2002-06-20, Kenneth Whistler wrote: >In any case, I wonder if Tom could explain what is special about >hexadecimal expressed with "0".."9", "A".."F", as opposed to >any other base numeric system that might be in widespread use, >(duodecimal and vigesimal come to mind) which would lead to a >particular argument that it should be encoded with a distinct set >of characters.
Actually I heard once that there were duodecimal digits (hm for the six-fingered I guess) for 11 and 12 out there somewhere that somebody was mulling over proposing. -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
