This is a first! A quotation and an author was cited that I have
actually heard of in my past. The following paragraph did send me to
the dictionary for four definitions though......
.....concluding my Vulcan Mind Meld for today.
:-)
On 5/9/2013 6:53 AM, John Gilmore wrote:
As Ogden Nash wrote, "Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker".
There are situations in which a radix other than 2 is episodically
useful; and when these situations arise a binary machine can be
programmed very readily to exploit, say, ternary or octal logic.
Moreover, binary machines can and almost always do exhibit some
crucial ternary, signum-like behavior.
John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA
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