Re: OT-ish: txt - Could it replace Standard Written English?

In a message dated 3/8/2003 11:17:23 PM Eastern Standard Time,
romilly@EGL.NET writes:


> Educational side-note:  It never occurred to me as a child, and we certainly
> weren't taught, that it was possible to count in other than base 10.
> Probably in the 50s, as computers became known, some teacher discussed base
> 2; quite accidentally, at age 29 (1963), I learned about other bases and
> how
> to manipulate them from one of Morris Kline's books
I learned about other bases in fifth grade (1975/1976).  This was a tough
subject for some students -- for all those years, "10" had meant ten, now all
of a sudden "10" could mean eight, or two, or sixteen or whatever base we
were using.

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