From: John H. Jenkins (jenkins@apple.com)
Date: Mon Jun 07 2010 - 14:55:52 CDT
For me, the biggest advantage for octal is that you can still count easily on your fingers. (And yes, I do count on my fingers. I also still use a slide rule and have been known to do long division in Roman numerals.)
On Jun 5, 2010, at 11:16 AM, Jonathan Rosenne wrote:
> When I started using computers we used octal, so I suggest new characters for the octal digits “0”, “1”, “2”, “3”, “4”, “5”, “6”, “7”.
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> BTW, octal has all the benefits claimed for hexadecimal with the advantage that it is much simpler.
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> Jony
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> From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Peter Constable
> Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2010 6:45 PM
> To: Unicode Discussion
> Subject: base-9 digits
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> Can we please encode new characters for base-9 digits “0”, “1”, “2”, “3”, “4”, “5”, “6”, “7”, “8”?
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> Peter
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