humans and logic

pfenn at mmm.com pfenn at mmm.com
Thu Jun 14 09:17:48 EDT 2001


Decimal vs hex vs octal vs binary?  It's just different representations of
the same number.  This obsession with form over substance is not logical.
Anyway, computers don't deal with 1's and 0's.  They deal with high and low
voltages.  Rather than reform the elementary school curriculum by switching
to binary arithmetic, I'd rather introduce electrical engineering.  Analog
electrical engineering, because all those stray capacitances matter when
your chips run at 1 GHz.

somebody-will-probably-take-this-post-seriously-ly,

Tom







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