From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jan 27 16:23:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from relay3.inwind.it (relay3.inwind.it [212.141.53.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3139E37B400 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 16:23:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from bartequi.ottodomain.org (62.98.171.35) by relay3.inwind.it (5.1.056) id 3A40BF86007E740C; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:22:43 +0100 From: Salvo Bartolotta Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 00:25:25 GMT Message-ID: <20010128.252500@bartequi.ottodomain.org> Subject: Re: OT again: Re: hexidecimal literacy To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Mike Meyer , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: 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> <20010127.23473800@bartequi.ottodomain.org> X-Mailer: SuperCalifragilis X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 1/28/01, 1:09:47 AM, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote=20 regarding Re: OT again: Re: hexidecimal literacy: > Salvo Bartolotta writes: > > I was thinking of a *positional* system of the kind a*(base raised t= o > > 0) + b * (base raised to 1) + ... > Yes. > 11111 in unary is 1*(1^0) + 1*(1^1) + 1*(1^2) + 1*(1^3) + 1*(1^4). This ahem "system" is a little curious: eg how do you represent, erm,=20 0 ? With bells (and whistles) ? :-) With just one symbol, you are somewhat limited, aren't you ? OTOH, 0=20 is (maybe) the most important number in the history of maths... Ok,ok,=20 I have too much Algebra and Analysis in mind. :-)=20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message