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stampeder
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Response Posted - 02/08/2008 :  15:22:05  Show Profile
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">A yard is middle of chest to outstretched fingers<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

that's why they employ little old ladies in fabric shops in England - they have very short arm spans, so you end up paying twice as much for stuff.

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">And if we didn't have 10 fingers on our 10 hands, we probably would be binary. And lets not get into the base 60 system that gave us angular degrees and time.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">
that's what I like about metric - based on fingers and toes. Base 60 is something everyone who can read a clock, can understand.
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Response Posted - 02/08/2008 :  15:49:24  Show Profile
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by stampeder</i>
<br />[quote]Base 60 is something everyone who can read a clock, can understand.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">Not likely... A clock is "modulo 60", not "base 60", but still base 10 (decimal). When you add 6 minutes plus 6 minutes you still get 12 minutes. Base 60 would have <i>60 different digits </i> (including 0). You'd have to make up quite a few new ones! The number 35 (base 60) would be equal to 185 in base 10. Base 16 (hexadecimal) has the digits 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E,F. The number 10 in hex is 16 in decimal. 10 in binary (base 2) is 2 in decimal. (Thus the saying about only 10 kinds of people...)

Nothing like cold weather to start this nonsense!
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John Russell
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Response Posted - 02/08/2008 :  15:59:53  Show Profile
Engineers, ya can't live with 'em and ya can't shoot em
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Response Posted - 02/08/2008 :  16:09:35  Show Profile
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Dave5041</i>
<br />Are our org. masthead or boats big enough to have Catalina 1000/11111010? Did I do that right?<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

In binary, it'd be <b><font color="blue">Catalina 11001/11111010</font id="blue"></b>
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Dave5041
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Response Posted - 02/08/2008 :  19:07:14  Show Profile
Oops again. As soon as I saw my post, I knew I choked. 25 is not a power of 2, except possibly in Trenton, NJ.

Now that is really enough for me.
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dmpilc
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Response Posted - 02/09/2008 :  07:01:25  Show Profile
Amazing where these threads can go, considering where it started. More of the weird. Bad freak storm super cell came through earlier this week, several tornados, barely missed us fortunately, others not so fortunate. In one county near Nashville over 150 homes destroyed. Also took out a dormitory at a small college. Last I heard state-wide death toll was 32.

Beginning yesterday, 4 days of sunshine and daytime temps in the 50's.
Got our C-22 fleet annual meeting today at my house. Will probably go sailing tomorrow.
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stampeder
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Response Posted - 02/10/2008 :  21:55:05  Show Profile
According to Wik http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeral_system and my memory...the sixty minute clock is indeed base 60.

And since we're on the topic of weather, our nasty cold spell is supposed to break, and we'll be back to normal - above freezing temps tommorow.
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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 02/11/2008 :  09:56:47  Show Profile
Well, to continue the cold-weather fun... That Wiki article says the clock has 60 seconds and 60 minutes because of the base-60 system of Samaria, etc... However, the clock is not "Base 60". The number 12 on the clock means 1 ten and 2 ones. 8 minutes plus 8 minutes = 16 minutes (1 ten and 6 ones). However, the minutes and seconds are "modulo 60" meaning you count to 60 (in base 10 BTW), increment something else, and then start over. That's what has its roots in the Samarian number system.

Are we having fun yet?
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Champipple
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Response Posted - 02/11/2008 :  11:27:54  Show Profile  Visit Champipple's Homepage
Just left Chicago - was there for business this past weekend. -27 windchill Sunday morning. The guy I was will spilled coffee on himself while walking to the car - Frozen by the time he got to the car.

does that put us back on the weird weather track?
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Prospector
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Response Posted - 02/11/2008 :  12:01:00  Show Profile  Visit Prospector's Homepage
So what would -27 be in base 12? How about binary?
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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 02/11/2008 :  14:32:01  Show Profile
27 in base 10 is 23 in base 12 (two 12s plus 3), and 11011 in binary (16+8+0+2+1). Negative is negative.
Edited by - Dave Bristle on 02/11/2008 14:35:28
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Response Posted - 02/11/2008 :  14:33:48  Show Profile  Visit Champipple's Homepage
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Prospector</i>
<br />So what would -27 be in base 12? How about binary?
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-11011
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-23 in base 12

or 240.3722 Kelvin
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