Dune Parody skit. Was RE: whitewigs

[David Nicol]

The ancient Sumerians did everything in base sixty, which survives today as
the time system and the degree system for circles.  A computer that had native
base sixty modes could be built with a six-bit word length, leaving four unused
codes for end-of-record and whatnot.

Put that in your MIME-encoder and smoke it.


On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 10:43:29 -0600, Brian Kelsay
<Brian.Kelsay at kcc.usda.gov> wrote:
> Good luck w/ that one.  Get ready to convert everything to base 16 or was it 20 or some other strage figure.  I do recall it has something to do w/ the solar cycles and that it abruptly ends at some point, although there is nothing to really stop it from continuing.  I may also be thinking of the Incas.