Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 23:47:38 GMT From: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@inwind.it> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT again: Re: hexidecimal literacy Message-ID: <20010127.23473800@bartequi.ottodomain.org> In-Reply-To: <14963.21950.110019.468965@guru.mired.org> References: <14963.8033.752142.149320@guru.mired.org> <20010127.20140200@bartequi.ottodomain.org> <14963.13797.116165.382738@guru.mired.org> <20010127.22394200@bartequi.ottodomain.org> <14963.21950.110019.468965@guru.mired.org>
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 1/28/01, 12:11:58 AM, Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> wrote regarding Re: = OT again: Re: hexidecimal literacy: > Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@inwind.it> types: > > [ redirected to -chat before somebody flames both of us :-) ] > Good idea! > I would call it teaching your mother to suck eggs, but... I was making my standpoint clear and (hopefully) unambiguous. > Nope, only 0 is exempt. Unary is usually the first notational systems > ones learns for representing numbers, and is almost certainly the > first one discovered by humanity. It's probably used by more people > than binary. <snip> I was thinking of a *positional* system of the kind a*(base raised to=20 0) + b * (base raised to 1) + ... > Now, if you want to get *really* wierd, start thinking about bases > that have an absolute value of less than 1. Erm, yes. Actually, I have continuous homomorphisms R -> R+ with 0 <=20 base < 1 in mind. And the contruction of the exponential functions (as=20 well as the topological theorems involved in it) IS beautiful. :-)) Salvo "Chi non sa di matematica non si eleva di un sol palmo da terra"=20 -- Galileo "Those who do not know mathematics do not elevate themselves of one=20 palm from the ground" (rough tranlation). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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