On 06/04/2010 03:10 PM, Luke-Jr wrote:
On Friday 04 June 2010 01:28:21 pm Rick McGowan wrote:
Just out of curiosity, why do you think it's useful or important for
people to use hexadecimal as their primary system of counting? What
advantages would it confer?
John W. Nystrom went over the numerous benefits to the tonal system
(contrasting it with not only base 10, but also other possible bases) a long
time ago...
http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/tonal-system/10991090
For a while I even joined the Dozenal Society, which advocates for
base-12. Base-12 has the advantage (over base-10 and base-16) of many
divisors, so division radix notation (to the right of the radix point)
is easier.
Not really the point, though. Unicode's job is not so much to set
humans free to do *anything*, but to allow them to do the things they've
been doing all along.
~mark
