For me, the biggest advantage for octal is that you can still count easily on your fingers. (And yes, I do count on my fingers. I also still use a slide rule and have been known to do long division in Roman numerals.)
On Jun 5, 2010, at 11:16 AM, Jonathan Rosenne wrote: > When I started using computers we used octal, so I suggest new characters for > the octal digits “0”, “1”, “2”, “3”, “4”, “5”, “6”, “7”. > > BTW, octal has all the benefits claimed for hexadecimal with the advantage > that it is much simpler. > > Jony > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Peter Constable > Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2010 6:45 PM > To: Unicode Discussion > Subject: base-9 digits > > Can we please encode new characters for base-9 digits “0”, “1”, “2”, “3”, > “4”, “5”, “6”, “7”, “8”? > > > > Peter ===== John H. Jenkins [email protected]
