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On Sun, 22 Jun 2025 15:49:55 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> On 2025-06-22, c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 6/22/25 2:14 AM, rbowman wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, 21 Jun 2025 21:24:07 -0400, c186282 wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>>     Still wonder about the Babylonian base-60 thing ...
>>> 
>>> Yeah, every time I have to convert degrees/minutes/seconds into
>>> something I can work with. The jury is still out if that can be blamed
>>> on them or not. The French tried to metrify that and more or less
>>> failed.
>>
>>    It WAS a really weird system for sure.
>>    PROBABLY based on 360 degrees, but we can't be sure. '
>>
>>    Odd factoid, the old Greek scientists had to change their crap
>>    number system to Babylonian, do the calx, then convert back to the
>>    Greek system.
>>
>>    Anyway, 60 different numbers ... likely twice as many symbols as
>>    needed to write the main lang.
>>    Wow.
> 
> And then there's base-64...

Yeah, there is that... I'll take that BLOB, divide it up into octets, that 
the octets two at a time to look up some arbitrary character in a table, 
add that to the the stream, and maybe do some sort of padding when I run 
out of octets.  Great fun, encoding and decoding.