In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Ma gnus Danielson" writes:
>Everything is arbitrary as base scale and division. Uhm no. All bases larger than 2 are arbitrary and all scalings are arbitrary. But base 2 represents the fundamental counting system, and as such is is unique. This has been acknowledged since Leibnitz. However, following the subsequent mathematical proof that the choice of base makes no difference to any kind of math, apart from expense of ink and paper to write the numbers, base-2 was left alone until somebody much later got the heritical idea to drive thermionic valves way pas their linear behaviour. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
