--- In SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com, "vulpinemac" <vulpine@...> wrote:
>
> I've been following this thread for a while now and noticed that
with all the good ideas
> here, a very critical thing is missing; something that almost nobody
even thinks about
> because it's so ubiquitous. While Jim has already mentioned that
their monetary system
> has been modified slightly, what about their numbering system
itself? We think in tens
> because we have five digits on each hand, but the furs of Jim's
world only have four.
> Logically, this means they should think in eights and their easy
multiples would be
> multiples of four and eight as we think in multiples of five and ten.
>
Steve Gallacci (ages back, when he was drawing/publishing Albedo, one
of the first real hard SF takes on the furry genre, incorporated a
base-8 numbering system for just that reason. When they found an old
human spaceship, they marveled at the 5-fingered hands and a 10-digit
keypad.
Good luck finding the old issues anymore, it took me ages to find them
all. If you can, though, they were compiled in a four volume
collection called "Command Review", i think.
-SirFox
Received on Fri Oct 03 2008 - 08:45:35 CDT