Re: Why don't we just talk binary language???

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From: R H Draney
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 19:56

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Herman Rubin filted:
>
>In article <1187818821.429330.176310@l22g2000prc.googlegroups.com>,
>DKleinecke  <dkleinecke@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>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.

That's settled then...now we need letters that we can use when we need to label
a set of things that may expand beyond a cardinality of 26...some progress has
already been made on this front:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Beyond_Zebra

....r


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