Re: [ILUG] [Way OT] A bit more about jobs, jobs, jobs...

From: John P. Looney (jplooney-ilug at domain online.ie)
Date: Fri 12 May 2000 - 14:49:22 IST

On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 03:37:12PM +0200, McDaid, Aaron mentioned:
> Anyway, I found it amusing that
> http://www.geekcode.com/geek.html specified
> that you "use BASE 10 numbers."
>
> But when you think about it that's a tautology!
> What base is the "10" - If I intended to use
> hex then I could interpret the "10" as hex.
> He/she should have said "use DECIMAL numbers"

 Or base X numbers. Romans never had an issue with base ;)

Kate 

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