Hello, Madan, Good to hear from you again. Long time no see. :-)
On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 08:16:45 M R wrote: ... >The advantage of DECIMAL system is these things. >1. For a very long time (1000's of years), we > have been using the words like > ten, hundred, thousand, etc in our casual talk. > Duodecimal system ignores these numbers and > instead goes by multiples of 12. >2. Decimals are easier to use, since they involve > 1 number, while fractions use 2 numbers > I guess duodecimal system goes by fractions. > >May be 1 day, man can tweak the DNA to give >12 fingers in the human hands, but still we >will hold up with the decimal system. > He, he... I honestly doubt it, but, hey, who knows?... >But the real threat is the hexadecimal system. >Along with the computers, when robots appear in >the market place, then the hex may challenge >the decimal system. > I don't feel their threat just because we have already been forcing computers to operate on OUR TERMS, so to speak. Unless these new products come with numbers in hex and stuff, then, in that case, when that happens I may start getting worried about it. ... >I hope some 1 comes up with a computer which uses >decimal system instead of binary system. >... Sometime ago I already vehicled here a very simple solution that would certainly help, that they forget about continuing to push this mediocrity of binary buses and computer memories on us (like 32-bit, 64-bit, etc). If the computer industry implemented the very simple, yet effective, decimal buses like 100-bit, 1000-bit, etc, this problem would vanish. Just think of the tremendous help this would give the public to get used to ki, Mi, Gi etc prefixes, since these are simply decimal powers (10, 20, 30, etc) of two. Marcus ____________________________________________________________ Get 25MB of email storage with Lycos Mail Plus! Sign up today -- http://www.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus
