23 Mar
2005
23 Mar
'05
7:09 p.m.
The ancient Sumerians did everything in base sixty, which survives today as the time system and the degree system for circles. A computer that had native base sixty modes could be built with a six-bit word length, leaving four unused codes for end-of-record and whatnot.
Put that in your MIME-encoder and smoke it.
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 10:43:29 -0600, Brian Kelsay [email protected] wrote:
Good luck w/ that one. Get ready to convert everything to base 16 or was it 20 or some other strage figure. I do recall it has something to do w/ the solar cycles and that it abruptly ends at some point, although there is nothing to really stop it from continuing. I may also be thinking of the Incas.