[olug] OT: Drill Press

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Just catching up on my emails... if you have not found a drill press contact me off-list as I have one here at the house.

Patrick

---- Aric Aasgaard <aric at omahax.com> wrote: 
> Did you get a drill press yet?
> 
> The non beneficial part of this bump regarding the thread jack:  
> 
> IMO base 10 is not efficient for anything more with 2 or more dimensions.  
> 
> Base 8 makes the most logical sense to me as one could just count with their
> fingers and spaces of one hand without the thumb.  Use both hands for base
> 16.  LOL use up and down fingers for byte length binary count up to 255
> decimal units...
>   
> Maybe it should be more like musical notation.  Seven with 0 and double 0 or
> 8 being the same note an octave apart.  This could then easily be then
> though of on a doubling scale.
> 
> Another thing that it sort of broken is that our brains were rasterized in
> elementary school so we tend to think of a unit as a square or a cube.  IMO
> a point should be thought of as a circle or sphere without dimension if that
> makes any sense. You can't think of 1 as multi dimensional thing.  If 1 is a
> value as distance from the origin it should be circular in 2 dimensions not
> a square.
> 
> ....while we are reprogramming why not use Euler's number as the base.
> 
> "Conditioner is better, I leave the hair silky and smooth."
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
> Luke-Jr
> Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 9:47 AM
> To: Omaha Linux User Group
> Subject: Re: [olug] OT: Drill Press
> 
> On Sunday 25 October 2009 06:14:22 pm DYNATRON tech wrote:
> > it seems that for most people, base 10 is much easier to work witih.
> 
> Only in the sense that for most (Nebraskan) people, English is much easier
> to 
> work with. If you grew up in a culture using base 6 (ideal for finger-
> counting), you would be familiar with that.
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