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In article <1187818821.429330.176310@l22g2000prc.googlegroups.com>,
DKleinecke  <dkleinecke@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Aug 21, 11:01 pm, "Paul J Kriha"
><paul.nospam.kr...@paradise.net.nz> wrote:

>> If only he could think of a numerical system in which
>> one plus one equals ten. When he does, he will gain
>> admission into the Binary Nirvana through which he can
>> ascend (while sidestepping the evil brothers Trinary
>> and Ternary of the Nibble Family) straight into the
>> Eighth Heaven of Octal System.

>Bad News Brother

>Then Octal Dispensation is no more.

>We are in the Hexadecimal dispensation now.

>And we desperately need better symbols for eleven, twelve, thirteen,
>fourteen and fifteen.

On that I will agree.  I was using higher bases BC (before
computers), and my favorite notation was J, K, L, M, N, O,
which are respectively the tenth to fifteenth letters in
the Roman alphabet.  Unfortunately, "L" and "1" were often
confused, and "O" and "0" still are.  For SWAC, the letters
chosen were T, U, V, W, X, and Y, which moves them up another
ten in the alphabet.


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