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To: freedom_forge

What’s with your obsession with that old antiquated radix 10 number system such as SI anyway? This is the computer age, baby! Computers use radix 2. Come on, get with it.

Computers do not multiple nor divide by 10 so easily. They can operate on radix 2 numbers far faster and they are the natural number system of the digital age, sow why would anyone care about using a paper based decimal point system such as the metric system?


147 posted on 04/21/2008 10:36:03 AM PDT by CodeToad
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To: CodeToad
What’s with your obsession with that old antiquated radix 10 number system such as SI anyway? This is the computer age, baby! Computers use radix 2. Come on, get with it.

I prefer Hex. It's shorter to write. When I did my graduate research many, many years ago, we had a measurement instrument that displayed lights representing octal. What a pain in the butt it was, at first, for me to convert octal to decimal in my head so I could take notes.

Then, in my first job, I put together a data acquisition system. It was like going to heaven. No conversion, no notes even.

149 posted on 04/21/2008 11:39:10 AM PDT by freedom_forge
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