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"Peter Hermann" <ica2ph@sinus.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote in message 
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> I would like the octal system.
> If we only were Mickey Mice with 4 fingers/hand
> we had no conversion problems :-)

Or just imagine having 3 additional fingers on each hand.