humans and logic

[Rainy]

On 12 Jun 2001 16:29:31 -0700, thinkit <thinkit8 at lycos.com> wrote:
> In article <slrn9id2cv.bhf.sill at sill.silmarill.org>, sill at optonline.net says...
>>
>>On 12 Jun 2001 08:39:37 -0700, thinkit <thinkit8 at lycos.com> wrote:
>>> humans should use a power of 2 as a base.  this is more logical because it
>>>synchs with binary, which is at the very heart of logic--true and false.  it is
>>> more natural perhaps, to use decimal--but logic should, and will, win out.
>>> 
>>
>>It's actually illogical to use binary for everything - it's simply too hard to
>>write a large number in it. Try writing 1,388,034,093 in binary on a piece of
>>paper
>>then come back :-).
>>
>>
>>-- 
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>>And Titania Neptune Titan
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>>        - Syd
> 
> 
> i said powers of two, not two.  this would probably be octal or hexadecimal...i
> like hexadecimal a lot more.
> 

Oh, sorry. I misread. Now it makes *very slightly* more sense :-)


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