Joe:

More damn brain farts. (Sorry about the smell, John.)

As one who has worked with hexadecimal for many years, I should have known
better.

Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]

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Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 08:51
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:17221] Re: The number twelve and the universe!!


Bill Potts wrote in USMA 17212;

>One and one twelfth (1 plus 1/10)  is written as 1.1 One and eleven
twelfths
>(1 plus 1/A) is written as 1.A.

Correction. Using radix 12, one and eleven twelfths is written as 1.B.  One
and ten twefths is written as 1.A.  A = ten and B = eleven.

Joseph B.Reid
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