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I'd just like to throw in a couple of hard facts before we get any further carried away: 1) all aliens encountered to date have had four(4) digits on each "hand"; (2) most cartoonists have admitted to being victims of alien abduction.
thank you for your attention,
ron obvious
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<<Anyway, tsuwm has already explained how to count in octal, so what else are we supposed to be solving?>> Quite right. Next puzzle please. (Do you have any idea how hard it was not to write: "who can testify that the said alien... counting with 8 such fingers....")  (anything you say can be given in evidence) next. ron obturate
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Looks like Tsuwm still isn't convinced!
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quite right! i've just refined my theory.  -anne elke
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Walt Disney sees to agree on four fingers.
Check Mickey's "hands."
Re Adams and 42 ... I wonder how old was he when he wrote the book.
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I wonder how old was he...
In, ah, which base....?
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I wonder how old was he...
In, ah, which base....?
In plain old every day math like in answer to the question :"How old are you."
Ok, Maverick, nobody likes a smarta** ... oh, wait! Around here we do!
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Plain old everyday math--wow, you did type that on your computer-- which of course is digital-- but uses hex as short hand, and but might act as if the world was in base 64-- but uses ascii for the keyboard-- which can be expressed in octal? So plain old every day math-- which base is that? just because you have a bias towards base 10... And don't think this is a new fangled computer thing-- the egyptian pyramids were build using binary for the really big numbers and calculations! (the weird stuff i know!  )
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