Re: Base 8 counting in Gevey
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, October 16, 2001, 2:04 |
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On Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:54:43 +0000, Rik Roots <rikroots@...>
wrote:
>And base 8 may have some advantages over base 10 (I tried working out
>the value of pi in base 8 - I think it comes out at 3.1111continuing,
>which [assuming I'm correct, can anyone confirm?] would make some
>aspects of geometry a little easier to do in your head).
3.110375524. (Found by multiplying pi by 8^9 and converting to octal. Why
don't calculators allow fractional numbers in octal or hex?)
Mizarian rat-people use octal because they have eight fingers (three
fingers and a thumb on each hand). But Nieskloz is a human language, and it
also uses octal. I've never given much thought to the fictional reasons why
Nieskloz would have developed an octal system of numerals, but I'm sure it
must have something to do with the fact that I was learning about computer
programming at the time.
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