>Hi Hilmar,
>
>You are correct. Its amazing what has been accomplished with such a basic system of binary strings of ones and zeros. Thanks for the quick lesson in binary math.
A lot has been achieved
precisely because of the simplicity of the binary system. One major breakthrough was the realization that computers should better do math, etc., in binary. (Still amazing, of course.)
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
