[e2e] OT: a different number base

[David P. Reed]

Of course there is Babbage, who used precisely machined wheels that worked 
in base 10.  I have a lovely (non electric, hand-cranked) WWII Monroe 
calculator used in hydrodynamic calculations during the war - it is base 
10, also.

The floating point units of System 360 worked using base 16 digits (at one 
abstraction level).  I suspect this is not what you mean.

I believe the MIX computer in Knuth's books used base 10 logic, but I'm too 
lazy to check.

Personally, I've always thought that the optimal digital system would be 
use the number base negative 13



At 12:46 PM 4/2/2003 +0530, Alok Dube wrote:
>Hi,
>
>can anyone pass me links onto digital systems working on different number
>bases..like lets say hex instead of binary..
>Im looking for an implementation where we can find systems with number
>bases like 4, 16 etc.... where each device is charecterised by 4 or 16
>states etc..
>
>are there any working models of the same?
>
>or is there any literature one can lookup for the same?
>
>
>-rgds
>Alok