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

On Mon, 23 Jun 2025 00:40:53 -0400, c186282 wrote:

On 6/22/25 11:49 AM, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

On 2025-06-22, c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:
 

On 6/22/25 2:14 AM, rbowman wrote:
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On Sat, 21 Jun 2025 21:24:07 -0400, c186282 wrote:
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     Still wonder about the Babylonian base-60 thing ...

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Yeah, every time I have to convert degrees/minutes/seconds into
something I can work with. The jury is still out if that can be
blamed on them or not. The French tried to metrify that and more or
less failed.

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    It WAS a really weird system for sure.
    PROBABLY based on 360 degrees, but we can't be sure. '
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    Odd factoid, the old Greek scientists had to change their crap
    number system to Babylonian, do the calx, then convert back to the
    Greek system.
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    Anyway, 60 different numbers ... likely twice as many symbols as
    needed to write the main lang.
    Wow.

 
And then there's base-64...

 
   Don't see that often ...

It isn't a number system like base 10, but you'll see megabytes of base64
if you look :)

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4648