From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Tue Jan 08 2002 - 16:00:38 MST
On 8 Jan 2002 at 12:42, Yash wrote:
One of the main problems is incompatible bases; base 10 seems to be
ideal for our mathematical use, and base 26 is alphabetically necessary
in the English language. In fact, a base of much less than 26 would
preclude our being able to create such a voluminous and
distinguishable vocabulary of relatively short words or represent all the
sounds we employ in speech, but a base of more than 10 would be a
monster to master for most people (our ten counting digits (fingers)
make base 10 more user friendly in the sense that if any genetic
predisposition exists for any base, it most probably exists for base 10).
For these reasons we keep numbers (arithmetic) and letters (language)
separate, and use a composite alphanumeric system.
>
> I think you're right.
>
> Except for the Vedic 'BS' part.
>
> Mnemonics do exist and there's nothing particularly 'BS' about that one.
> Well not if you subscribe to the 'Dates' and 'origin' which Hermit has
> mentioned himself on his own and got himself all excited about.
>
> Yash.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-virus@lucifer.com [mailto:owner-virus@lucifer.com]On Behalf
> Of Kalkor
>
> The impression I got was that Yash was proposing the construction of a
> language wherein everything has multiple meanings, and great depth of
> information can be stored. He used the vedic PI BS as an example.
>
> Yash, you might have better luck using analogy next time, as certain people
> in here seem to have latched onto the validity of your example (or lack
> thereof) and missed the concept for which the example was given in the first
> place...
>
> Maybe parable?
>
> I maintain that any language we were to create that fit these criteria would
> just confuse the hell out of me, and I want no part of it, I tell you!!!!
> ;-}
>
> Kalkor
>
>
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