From: Hans Aberg (haberg@math.su.se)
Date: Fri Jun 22 2007 - 09:47:32 CDT
On 22 Jun 2007, at 15:38, JFC Morfin wrote:
> Thank to everyone who commented. Very usefull.
> I understand what you say: ask the math people. Seems quite
> reasonable as no system has been devised yet.
> Since I started investigated that issue I found several
> applications. Also that bitridecimal - that Greek and Arabic cand
> support - and quadrisextadecimal have a huge future in computers
> and natural processors (nature seems to be quadrary?).
Computers tend to have words of length 2^k, k = 1, 2, ..., resulting
in 2^(2^k)-base systems, that is 2^1 = 2, 2^2 = 4, 2^4 = 16, 2^8 =
256, 2^16 = 65536, 2^32 = 4294967296, ... Of these, only base 2 and
16 are in common use: base 4 is less compact that base 16, and has
little advantage over base 2 or 16. Base 256 is probably already too
big, and base 4294967296 does not fit into Unicode. :-)
Hans Aberg
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