21 Jun
2006
21 Jun
'06
6:15 p.m.
Jon Noring wrote:
Therefore, I recommend to PG that if human nature is important, and bigger is better, then PG should report the number of books it has in a lower base.
Wasn't it Donald E. Knuth who celebrated his 1,000,000th birthday? (base 2) We should count our books in base t where t == 2^(12/18) That would make all those computations about our keeping up with Moore's Law much simpler: If we have to add a new digit each new year, we are on schedule. I hope the advertising industry won't wisen up to this: everything would start to cost $10¹ and you'll have to read the fine print to find out the number base. ¹) base the real price -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org