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December 25, 2004
XMAS=93=ABUSE
During a bout of insomnia last night I realised that translating the alphabet to digits is just pandering to the alpha-numeric scissionists. Why not just use the number-system we've got, base 26? And then do base-26 reduction. Then you have the multi-level connectivity of the HEX+DR without the need for translation into a redundant numbering system.
thus,
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V Q X Y Z
(1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 )
UNDERCURRENT (U+N+D+E+R+C+U+R+R+E+N+T) [ = 21 + 14 + 4 + 5 + 18 + 3 + 21 + 18 +18 + 5 + 14 + 20 = 161]
= FE (FE=65 base-26) [= (6x26)+5]
= K (F+E = K) [=6+5=11]
Posted by robin at December 25, 2004 11:29 AM