From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: decimal separator (international?
Date: 29 Oct 2004 14:18:10 -0500
Date: 2004-10-29T14:18:10-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cdLAfWjyRdWU@eisner.encompasserve.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: cltood$kcl$1@news.BelWue.DE
In article <cltood$kcl$1@news.BelWue.DE>, Peter Hermann <ica2ph@sinus.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> writes:
> In comp.lang.ada Frank J. Lhota <NOSPAM.Lhota.adarose@verizon.net> wrote:
>> "Bj?rn Persson" <spam-away@nowhere.nil> wrote in message
>> news:REsgd.7419$d5.63018@newsb.telia.net...
>> Peter Hermann wrote:
>> > I suppose you can talk about gibipounds and tebidollars if you like, but
>
> wrong: Peter Hermann (me) did not write this.
> I simply pointed to possible confusion.
> (and has been misunderstood ;-)
>
>> Actually, wouldn't life be simpler if everyone used 16 as their number base?
>
> I would like the octal system.
> If we only were Mickey Mice with 4 fingers/hand
> we had no conversion problems :-)
Polite children are raised not to count on their thumbs.
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2004-10-22 10:20 ` decimal separator (international? Peter Hermann
2004-10-22 13:18 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-10-22 16:20 ` Erik Naggum
2004-10-22 19:29 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2004-10-22 20:45 ` Erik Naggum
2004-10-23 18:54 ` Chris Kaese
2004-10-25 10:16 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-10-29 9:52 ` Stefan L�rchner
2004-10-29 9:59 ` Adrien Plisson
2004-10-29 10:23 ` Julian Bradfield
2004-10-29 11:22 ` Markus Kuhn
2004-10-29 12:41 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-10-29 13:43 ` Erik Naggum
2004-10-29 13:55 ` Julian Bradfield
2004-10-29 15:05 ` Erik Naggum
2004-10-29 15:29 ` Julian Bradfield
2004-10-30 12:15 ` Binary prefixes in Google's calculator Markus Kuhn
2004-10-30 14:23 ` Binary prefixes and decimal separators " Björn Persson
2004-10-29 12:58 ` decimal separator (international? Peter Hermann
2004-10-29 14:41 ` Björn Persson
2004-10-29 15:15 ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-10-29 15:48 ` Peter Hermann
2004-10-29 16:31 ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-10-29 19:18 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
2004-11-01 10:14 ` Anders Wirzenius
2004-11-01 18:53 ` Octal number system Andrew Nowicki
2004-11-01 21:47 ` Björn Persson
2004-11-02 1:04 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-10-29 16:09 ` decimal separator (international? Andreas Prilop
2004-10-30 9:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-10-29 14:21 ` Gee Pee (was: decimal separator (international?) Christoph Paeper
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