From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,aa463d25bcbdaa7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!newspeer1.se.telia.net!se.telia.net!masternews.telia.net.!newsb.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Bj=F6rn_Persson?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 X-Accept-Language: sv, sv-se, sv-fi, en-gb, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Octal number system References: <8h34o0dbc2h70ojvsst879nfkthko7suok@4ax.com> <4186860F.EF6C2749@nospam.com> In-Reply-To: <4186860F.EF6C2749@nospam.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 21:47:55 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.209.116.179 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsb.telia.net 1099345675 217.209.116.179 (Mon, 01 Nov 2004 22:47:55 CET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 22:47:55 CET Organization: Telia Internet Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5959 Date: 2004-11-01T21:47:55+00:00 List-Id: Andrew Nowicki wrote: > To the best of my knowledge the best number systems > are octal and duodecimal. Octal has simpler multiplication > table than decimal (base 10) and its numbers are almost as short. I like hexadecimal better than octal, but that's only because two=20 hexadecimal digits match one byte so nicely. --=20 Bj=F6rn Persson PGP key A88682FD omb jor ers @sv ge. r o.b n.p son eri nu