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

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From: DKleinecke
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 21:40

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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.

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

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