On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 08:28:29 -0400, Roy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > "Dan Bishop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> But there's no reason other than tradition why you should arrange them >> into groups of 10. > >Well, it is traditional for people to have 10 fingers :-) According to anthropology archives, there was once a tribe called "OS/360 system programmers" who would cut off their thumbs and great toes in order that they might better count in hexadecimal. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list