Inch / Foot (12 inches) / Yard (3 feet) / Pole (5.5 yards) / Chain (22 yards) / Furlong (220 yards, 10 chains, 40 poles) / Mile (1760 yards, 8 furlongs)
What base is that? Don’t knock it though, they were all based on practicalities; unlike the metric system which is arbitrary; like pounds per square inch and pascal which is downright dangerous when used to inflate automobile tyres.

 

Convert the number CAT from base 36 to base 35.
What do you get?

 

This might help if you don't want to do it the hard way:
http://www.kaagaard.dk/service/convert.htm

 

Just remember that 1 nanometer = 4970969.5 picofurlongs and everything will work out.

 

This might help if you don't want to do it the hard way:
http://www.kaagaard.dk/service/convert.htm

...but that takes all the fun out of it!!!!

 

It should be in base 12, decimal 11 =B; decimal 11X12 = B0; and decimal 12X12X11 = B00

Double oops... Between the two of us, someone has to eventually be right!

 

Americans (US) seem to like dividing things in half...

Gallon/2 = 1/2 gallon (too easy)
(1/2 gallon)/2 = quart (quarter gallon)
quart/2 = pint
pint/2 = cup
cup/2 = gill
gill/2 = ?
gill/2/2=ounce
ounce/2=tablespoon
tablespoon/2/2 = dram

 

Just remember that 1 nanometer = 4970969.5 picofurlongs and everything will work out.

Is that right? I always use a nanometer as being ~5 picofurlongs. If what you say is so, then things are really going to be different from now on.

 

Americans (US) seem to like dividing things in half...

Not just by half, a US pint is 4/5 of an English pint - same for the gallon.

 

How many fingers (including the thumbs) do you have? Which came first, counting or computers?

John

I got ten fingers, but only got nine toes so I can do Base 10 on my fingers and base nine on my feet. I know I know, I just could not help mayself, just had a silly moment I couldnt control. Im back quite now.
Bob

 

Wasn't there an attempt by a russian group to make a base 3 digital computer?

 

In a manner of speaking, isn't 0/1/"off" base three?

 

In a manner of speaking, isn't 0/1/"off" base three?

Since computers rely on voltage levels to differentiate one state from another, you'd have to define 0 and 1 as voltage levels other than 0 volts.

So, for example, if you had 0 = 5v, 1 = 10v, off = 0v, then yes, you'd have a base 3 system. But that's really no different than a true base 3 system in which 0 would be defined as 0 volts and 1 & 2 would be defined at some other voltage levels; it would just be more confusing, since people tend to like equating 0 with 0 volts.

 

I think they intended to use a three phase AC, but since it was not a viable project, there is probably not much info to be found on it. I'm going from a very unreliable memory of this info. Never trust MY memory.

 

I got ten fingers, but only got nine toes so I can do Base 10 on my fingers and base nine on my feet. I know I know, I just could not help mayself, just had a silly moment I couldnt control. Im back quite now.
Bob

I only have 9 fingers,but my Dad counts in Octal...

 

If only early man evolved without the pinky finger we'd have base 2 licked. Computing would be way ahead of what it's at now.
If our feet were all a meter long...

 

If our feet were all a meter long...

We would all be about 2/3 of a meter shorter.

John

 

No an actual meter, we'd either have really big feet or be a race of giants.

Geeze when will the US switch to metric? They use it in Star Trek so we know it'll happen sometime in the future.

 

And here I thought we evolved from something without feet. If more got turned up for our feet, then we would have to be shorter, right?

Which metric system do you think we should be on? Last time I checked, there were 5 different metric standards for nuts and bolts, but only one SAE standard. My rulers have measured in tenths, hundredths, and thousandths for as long as I can remember.

BTW, I didn't know "warp" was a metric measure of speed? What exactly is warp 8?

John

 

Not Warp lol, but Kilometers, Celsius, mm, Liters that sort of thing. Not inches, pounds, cups...