Re: Rude math :-)

On Apr 26, 4:29�pm, "I.N. Galidakis" <morph...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Mensanator wrote:
On Apr 26, 1:46 pm, "I.N. Galidakis" <morph...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Mensanator wrote:

[snip]

Do I detect malice and ill-intent in your words?

No, no, no. I generally don't bother adding ":-)" to
my posts. I figure if you don't already get it, it won't
help.

Perhaps intent to insult,
threaten, start a flame war and/or abusive arguments?

Not at all. Of course, you COULD have said something
along the lines of "you're right, that was silly, I
never should have said it"

I am not sure I understand. What exactly did you find silly?

This:
<quote>
I always understood the "decimal" part to refer to the "order-type" of
the
string, which I take it to mean "using decimal digits", as in BCD
(Binary Coded
Decimal) in asm.

That way, I interpret "decahexadecimal" to mean exactly a "decimal" in
"base
16".
</quote>

You DO know that base 16 uses sixteen different glyphs?

"0123456789ABCDEF"

And under no stretch of imagination would be a
"decimal" order-type.

After staring at your answer for a while, the only thing I can think of, is that
you might have found my usage of the word "decimal" dubious, because by
definition "the decimal digits" are exactly S = {0,1,2,...,9}?

See, not that hard to figure out. And, as I said previously,
such a usage would mean that base 8 would be called "octadecimal".
So, it's obvious that the "decimal" is refering to the radix,
so that the "hexa" combined with "deci" means 16. Adding a
further "deca" adds a further ten, making the radix 26.


So, when the cardinality of the glyph set S exceeds 10, then one cannot use the
word "decimal" as order-type since S does not consist of only "decimal digits"?

Where "0123456789ABCDEF" are called hexadecimal digits,
but that's circular, that's why I didn't mention it.


Maybe you'd prefer:

That way, I interpret "deca-hexi-mal" (or "hexa-deci-mal" if you order
reverse)
to mean exactly an "n-mal" in "base n=16".


At least it's consistent. Note that I have not disputed
any of your Greek lessons on how things should be named,
but only pointed out that "decahexadecimal" is
inconsistent with said lessons.


Is that it? What a HORRIBLE mistake! I suggest we form a committe which cuts my
balls off with a rusty razor blade, in a torture chamber in medieval Spain,
under the Inquisition. Or consult the Trilateral Commission. Or NATO. Or all of
them for legal action against ANY individual

Not any individual, just Greeks. After all, YOU'RE the
one who claimed my statement "everything you know is
wrong" only applies to non-Greeks. Was that said with
malice and ill-intent?

who makes such HORRIBLE and ABOMINABLE mistakes!

Hey, who's being the pedant here about how number systems
should be named? Who's got the hair up his ass about mixing
Greek and Latin?

Frankly, I prefer "Standard Positional Number System of
Radix 16" to "hexadecimal".


All you had to do was just SAY SO.

I thought I did. Ok, maybe what seems obvious to me isn't
obvious to others. Sorry, I guess my mind is too highly
trained.

"Instead of calling me "insane" TWICE,

YOU'RE the one who said you must be insane.
Don't you remember that? Do I have to got back
and quote it to you? I thought that being hoisted
by your own petard was amusing.


for the
"erroneous" coinage of a hybrid-constructed word, in a hypothetical situation,
used to analyze another situation in English.

I didn't say it was "erronous", I said it was inconsistent.

--
Ioannis --- "There's _always_ a mistake, somewhere."

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