Re:Freedom Clock
by fnordpiglet on Saturday March 25, 2023 @11:35AM
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That’s why I say 11rd Street and set my hot pot to 1100100 degrees. The added benefit is I can now do math on my fingers with a 100x greater range! Bring in toes and it gets insane.
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I feel like people like you should be required to use | and O instead of 0 and 1. You don't get to spoil our perfect arabic numerals for your numerical travesty. begone, you wasters of bytes
Re:Freedom Clock
by fnordpiglet on Saturday March 25, 2023 @11:45AM
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In reality I encode everything in raw bits but for these Europeans I convert to their hippy Unicode whatever. Why use 7 bits for a character when you can use UTF-8/16/32 - the “metric system” of encodings.
You will love this: https://www.earthdate.org/episodes/how-10-fingers-became-12-...
Re:Freedom Clock
by fnordpiglet on Saturday March 25, 2023 @12:51PM
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I guess it’s good they didn’t use base 2 finger counting or we would have 1024 hours