what numerical base do survivalists like?
Thinkit
ReMoVeSpAm
21:37:18 -0700
>I personally really like base 2 and 16. Binary and hexadecimal.
>
I fail to see your point. :(
Halcitron
Check your six and know when to duck.
Brown Thumb
13
( 17 for Italians, 5 for Japanese, IIRC )
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Liberal in favor of the Second Amendment
Damian Harvey
> I personally really like base 2 and 16. Binary and hexadecimal.
Base 10.
Base 11 or 13 if you're from the South. :)
Cheers
Damian Harvey
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Uncle Al.
rifleman1
target.and zero for the amount of time the target got to shoot back.
Lonnie Courtney Clay
> Thinkit wrote:
>
> > I personally really like base 2 and 16. Binary and hexadecimal.
>
> Base 10.
> Base 11 or 13 if you're from the South. :)
>
> Cheers
> Damian Harvey
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Hmmm your reference to Uncle Al seems to be missing. Is the guy below
the one whom you were quoting ? If so then you had better watch out,
he uses a machine gun mouth on anybody who offends him.......
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/
He seems to have gotten patriotic, must be too much Canadian bacon in
his diet.
Bring Al home the LONG WAY
Lonnie Courtney Clay
Thinkit
huh? you like base 13? why?
Thinkit
>
> > I personally really like base 2 and 16. Binary and hexadecimal.
>
> Base 10.
> Base 11 or 13 if you're from the South. :)
>
> Cheers
> Damian Harvey
base 10 is not very useful and worst highly unoriginal.
Jeffrey C. Dege
>I personally really like base 2 and 16. Binary and hexadecimal.
Old farts prefer octal.
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Strider
It does have the advantage of a readily available calculator on the
ends of your arm.
You might have to take off your shoes for higher math problems,
though.
Strider
Damian Harvey
That's the fella. He said it in sci.chem after some slacker wanted help with his homework, if I remember
correctly. I wasn't sure I needed his permission to put it in my sig but I'll add his URL for some free
publicity anyway
Cheers
Damian Harvey
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If proto-apes had gotten a glimpse of you they would have stayed in trees.
Uncle Al.
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/
Brown Thumb
It's pessimistic.
pyotr filipivich
misc.survivalism , Gunner <gun...@lightspeed.net> was inspired to scribe:
>thin...@lycos.com (Thinkit) wrote:
>
>>I personally really like base 2 and 16. Binary and hexadecimal.
>
>Base 10 works fine..I think I will stay on it. Hex is for the rather
>odd group of people who think just a bit differently than the masses.
>As most dimensions and tools are made for base 10....with the slight
>execption of older rulers....and no one works to 16ths ...
Not today I didn't.
But when I'm cutting stuff for production - a sixteenth is the tolerances.
>It would probably more important to use what is most common..
>
>Gotta love these really wiered questions..from left field.
I'm intrigued by the weird answers
>Particulary from byte heads.
>
>Gunner
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>
> "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an
> invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write
> a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort
> the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone,
> solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program
> a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die
> gallantly. Specialization is for insects." Robert Heinlein
pyotr filipivich
"What if they gave a war and nobody came?
Why then, the war would come to you."
Bertolt Brecht 1898-1956
Jeffrey C. Dege
>
> I'm intrigued by the weird answers
So, what's your favorite number?
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of the designer. As this design un-folds over time, it is
often captured on such high-tech media as white boards, napkins,
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pyotr filipivich
>>And lo, it came about, that on Sat, 20 Oct 2001 12:54:09 -0700 in
>>misc.survivalism , Gunner <gun...@lightspeed.net> was inspired to scribe:
>>
>>>thin...@lycos.com (Thinkit) wrote:
>>>
>>>>I personally really like base 2 and 16. Binary and hexadecimal.
>>>
>>>Base 10 works fine..I think I will stay on it. Hex is for the rather
>>>odd group of people who think just a bit differently than the masses.
>>>As most dimensions and tools are made for base 10....with the slight
>>>execption of older rulers....and no one works to 16ths ...
>>
>> Not today I didn't.
>>
>> But when I'm cutting stuff for production - a sixteenth is the tolerances.
>
Worse - Firtex! (the stuff they make acoustic panels from) Which I then
get to cover in a variety of fabrics.
>It take a Man and a Machine!! to make metal chips...ugh ugh ugh!!
Nothing like the joy of hitting the feed for the last pass cutting a thread
- and watching the fershlugginer machine decides this pass to cut 12 threads
per inch, instead of the desired (and indicated) 14. Scrapola.
Buckshot
"Gunner" <gun...@lightspeed.net> wrote in message
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> pyotr filipivich <ph...@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> >And lo, it came about, that on Tue, 23 Oct 2001 00:58:41 -0700 in
> >misc.survivalism , Gunner <gun...@lightspeed.net> was inspired to scribe:
> >>pyotr filipivich <ph...@mindspring.com> wrote:
> >>>And lo, it came about, that on Sat, 20 Oct 2001 12:54:09 -0700 in
> >>>misc.survivalism , Gunner <gun...@lightspeed.net> was inspired to scribe:
> >>>
> >>>>thin...@lycos.com (Thinkit) wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>I personally really like base 2 and 16. Binary and hexadecimal.
> >>>>
> >>>>Base 10 works fine..I think I will stay on it. Hex is for the rather
> >>>>odd group of people who think just a bit differently than the masses.
> >>>>As most dimensions and tools are made for base 10....with the slight
> >>>>execption of older rulers....and no one works to 16ths ...
> >>>
> >>> Not today I didn't.
> >>>
> >>> But when I'm cutting stuff for production - a sixteenth is the tolerances.
> >>
> >>Must be wood working. Bah..even termites can make sawdust..
> >
> > Worse - Firtex! (the stuff they make acoustic panels from) Which I then
> >get to cover in a variety of fabrics.
> >
> >>It take a Man and a Machine!! to make metal chips...ugh ugh ugh!!
> >
> > Nothing like the joy of hitting the feed for the last pass cutting a thread
> >- and watching the fershlugginer machine decides this pass to cut 12 threads
> >per inch, instead of the desired (and indicated) 14. Scrapola.
>
> too late..and wipe out all the threads. Of course, as a CNC
> technician..I can tell you all about some WONDERFUL crashes...<G>
>
> Gunner
>
> >
> >
> >pyotr filipivich
Gunner and all,
I like Octal (base 8).
Matches the way I tote my ammo (8 round en-bloc clips) so just handier that way.
Buckshot
pyotr filipivich
misc.survivalism , Gunner <gun...@lightspeed.net> was inspired to scribe:
>pyotr filipivich <ph...@mindspring.com> wrote:
>>>>>Base 10 works fine..I think I will stay on it. Hex is for the rather
>>>>>odd group of people who think just a bit differently than the masses.
>>>>>As most dimensions and tools are made for base 10....with the slight
>>>>>execption of older rulers....and no one works to 16ths ...
>>>>
>>>> Not today I didn't.
>>>>
>>>> But when I'm cutting stuff for production - a sixteenth is the tolerances.
>>>
>>>Must be wood working. Bah..even termites can make sawdust..
>>
>> Worse - Firtex! (the stuff they make acoustic panels from) Which I then
>>get to cover in a variety of fabrics.
>>
>>>It take a Man and a Machine!! to make metal chips...ugh ugh ugh!!
>>
>> Nothing like the joy of hitting the feed for the last pass cutting a thread
>>- and watching the fershlugginer machine decides this pass to cut 12 threads
>>per inch, instead of the desired (and indicated) 14. Scrapola.
>
>Sigh...been there, done that..or having the halfnut close a fraction
>too late..and wipe out all the threads. Of course, as a CNC
>technician..I can tell you all about some WONDERFUL crashes...<G>
To err is to be human, but to really screw things up take automation. But
I got it right on the second go round. Then the micrometer had been dropped,
was off by 50 thousands. Ufda ...
I am remembering an old cartoon, one Grey Flannel Suit type speaking to
another "It would take a hundred accountants a hundred years to make the kind
of mistake the computer did in mere minutes."
pyotr filipivich
misc.survivalism , Gunner <gun...@lightspeed.net> was inspired to scribe:
>"Buckshot" <buck...@wcoil.com> wrote:
>
>>Gunner and all,
>>I like Octal (base 8).
>>Matches the way I tote my ammo (8 round en-bloc clips) so just handier that way.
>>Buckshot
>>
>Well hell... then I like base 11 because I can count on my toes.
"Remember the combination?"
"Ten, eleven and two"
"Your birthday?"
"No silly, fingers, toes and eyes!"
The Addam's brothers, in The Addams family (the movie)
pyotr filipivich
"Buckshot" <buck...@wcoil.com> was inspired to scribe:
>
>"Gunner" <gun...@lightspeed.net> wrote in message
>> >pyotr filipivich
{we talked about machining, which considers 50 thousands of an inch to be a
huge error.)
>
>Gunner and all,
>
>I like Octal (base 8).
>
>Matches the way I tote my ammo (8 round en-bloc clips) so just handier that way.
That's why I use the score (20). ...
Believe it or not, I was able to count control wires out by twenties to
feed into the press.
>
>Buckshot