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

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From: Paul J Kriha
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:34

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"DKleinecke" <dkleinecke@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> 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.

Aaah, what is this "dispensation" you talk about?

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

I don't feel desparate, I have been quite happy with ABCDEF
for the last 40 years.

However all these systems are just mirrages of one and
only System of The Binary Persuasion. Step away brother
from The Binary with its BITs. Admire the beauty and confront
the challenge of The Trinary (with its TITs of three possible
values true, false, and maybe):

Savour the delights of these samples of trinary arithmetic:
true AND true = true
true AND false = false
true AND maybe = maybe
maybe AND maybe = maybe
maybe AND false = false
false AND false = false

true OR true = true
true OR false = true
true OR maybe = true
maybe OR maybe = maybe
maybe OR false = maybe
false OR false = false

Or if you prefer the same in the digital representation:
1 AND 1 = 1
1 AND 0 = 0
1 AND 2 = 2
2 AND 2 = 2
2 AND 0 = 0
0 AND 0 = 0

1 OR 1 = 1
1 OR 0 = 1
1 OR 2 = 1
2 OR 2 = 2
2 OR 0 = 2
0 OR 0 = 0

pjk

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