Robert J. Chassell wrote:
I am curious, because of my fury that in the Middle Ages, Christian
Europe adopted an Indian/Arabic base 10 numerical system rather than
the better base 12 system. Base 12 fits the number of Christian
Apostles. It fits the number of eggs in dozen. In base 12, you can
count on one hand.
As a person who has had to work across radixes it is much easier to deal
with radixes that are powers of two (binary, base 4, octal, hexadecimal)
than any other arbitrary base. There's a reason computers use binary or
unary.
Base 12 sounds ridiculous, and all the more ridiculous for your
religious ranting and racism.
--
--Max Battcher--
http://www.worldmaker.net/
"History bleeds for tomorrow / for us to realize and never more follow
blind" --Machinae Supremacy, Deus Ex Machinae, Title Track
_______________________________________________
http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
