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From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
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Subject: Re: FAA To Finally Ditch Floppy Disks & Win-95
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2025 08:36:57 -0400
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Charlie Gibbs wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

> On 2025-06-18, c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:
>
>> On 6/18/25 12:15 PM, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>>
>>> On 2025-06-18, John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 18 Jun 2025 03:55:32 GMT
>>>> rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Besides 'metre' goes back to the French National Assembly that wanted
>>>>> to reinvent everything including 10 day weeks with the days named
>>>>> after plants.
>>>>
>>>> Frustratingly, the year persisted in having 365.25[...] days no matter
>>>> how severely they threatened to guillotine it ;)
>>> 
>>> Just as pi has resisted any attempts to re-define it as 3.
>>> (355/113 works pretty well, though...)
>>
>>    Well, just change to base-pi ... then it's
>>    conveniently 1
>>
>>    Might be a bit messy to calculate how to make
>>    change at the convenience store however  :-)
>
> Yeah, and then you have all those people who just got converted
> to base e and don't want to change again.

MIDI's variable-length values are basically base-128.

The Sumerians and Babylonians used base-60.

The Aztecs used base-20.

Programmers use base-16.

The gomers use base-10.

Digital Equipment Corporation used base-8.

strtol() allows any base up to 35.

-- 
 I'm an idiot..  At least this [bug] took about 5 minutes to find.
 
 Disquieting ...
		-- Gonzalo Tornaria in response to Linus Torvalds