Re: FAA To Finally Ditch Floppy Disks & Win-95

On Sat, 21 Jun 2025 23:57:23 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

On 2025-06-21, Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote:
 

rbowman wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
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On Fri, 20 Jun 2025 08:36:57 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
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Programmers use base-16.

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And 2, 8, and 10.  ARM processors are bringing bit twiddling back into
style.

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Dang, I forgot about base 2!

 
There are 10 kinds of people:
those who understand binary and those who don't.
 

Base 8 is kind of annoying, you know.

 
"Base 8 is just like base 10, really - if you're missing two fingers."
  -- Tom Lehrer

It sounds far-fetched but supposedly one culture used base 8 because they
counted with the spaces between their fingers rather than their fingers.