Re: Getting into the intro game

In a message dated 05/15/2002 09.28.04 AM, BP 8^)> bpj@MELROCH.NET writes:

>It occurs to me that most cartoon characters beginning with Mickey Mouse?)
>must use base-8 counting, seeing that they have only four fingers on each
>hand.
    Since fairly young I have always wondered how do these "HANDicapped"
cartoon characters count to ten if they only had 8 digits.... 0_o?
Lexical-borrowing in ToonTown? *gigloctet*

In a message dated 05/15/2002 02.49.30 PM, Andreas (and_yo@HOTMAIL.COM)
writes:

>By that logic, our dear old Babylonian friends must've had really large
>hands, or possibly just very many of them ...
    Nay, they had slaves ;) and they counted the slaves' hands as _theirs_.
*gigglabyte*

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