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strange you are all, fingers have 8
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public class Finger
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Fingers eight Yoda has.
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Interesting it makes when guitar he plays
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0x01AA wrote: Is it really because we have ten fingers?
That's it, I guess, a sane application of the KISS principle (crazy people like Boole, found simpler counting with the arms).
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I know about another bool System, especally invented by (hu)man   (I agree this is more soapbox now, sorry...)
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
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Quote:
I know about another bool System
Boob system, we call it.
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but, that's binary, most often !
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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Don't know about you, but they are not equivalent systems to me. 
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No, octal would be more natural, since we actually have 8 fingers.Ayt least I do!
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0x01AA wrote: Btw: I'm Aware, it took a longer time to recognize that "Zero" also exists.
I've recently been watching some YouTube videos late at night about the Sumerian Sexagesimal (base 60)[^] system. It's extremely interesting. The Sumerians absolutely knew about zero.. but they did not have a symbol for it. In all of the clay tablets with calculations requiring a zero... there is a blank space where the number zero should be. That makes perfect sense to me... with zero being NULL.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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There is some very interesting speculation about west-to-east (from Egypt) cultural transmission of iconography and the mathematical basis for weights and measures in this book on the weights of Burma (now Myanmar):
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https://www.amazon.com/Earth-Heaven-Animal-Shaped-Weights-Burmese/dp/9747551209
It's an out-of print book for a specialist, and ridiculously expensive, now. And, frustrating to read because some very grandiose theories are proposed, but sources are not annotated satisfactorily.
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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There is a known bug with link paste currently being reported on the Buggs%Suggs forum.
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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Hi, If you really want this book, let me know ... while I don't think it has ever been digitized, once in a while I find a copy in a Chiang Mai used book store for cheap.
I disagree with both the reviews currently on Amazon 
cheers, Bill
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
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How would you represent number 16dec in hexadecimal system? 8dec in octal? 2dec in binary?
Base of any numerical system is represented as 10 in it's own base.
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You just ran over a math's train over my head. It truly is mathematically indistinguishable :p
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I have nothing to add, just wanted to say that this is a great example of why I like this place.
i. Interesting questions
ii. Lot's of really smart people here with intelligent or humorous (both entertaining) answers
..even on a weekend!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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So have a nice Weekend
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
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I second this. I learn a lot in these discussions.
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