And below is an example of true geek humor. Us geeks are having a good chuckle. Everyone else is scratching their heads, saying, "What the *bleep* are they talking about!?" Josh PS And the Google nerds are busy searching for the meanings of the esoteric phrases... ;)

----- Original Message ----- From: "Marcello Perathoner" <marcello@perathoner.de> To: "Jon Noring" <jon@noring.name>, "Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion" <gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org> Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] 20000 (decimal) represented in other bases -- Impact on PG Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 20:15:09 +0200

Jon Noring wrote:

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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

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