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Binary Calculation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 August 2016

E. William Phillips
E. William Phillips
Affiliation:
Great Britain of the Manufacturers Life Insurance Company
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Extract

1. The development of this paper involves the consideration of certain arithmetical, mechanical, and photo-electrical technicalities, but the ultimate aim is a very simple one and it may therefore be advisable to state it at once. The ultimate aim is to persuade the whole civilized world to abandon decimal numeration and to use octonal numeration in its place; to discontinue counting in tens and to count in eights instead.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Institute of Actuaries , Volume 67 , Issue 3 , July 1936 , pp. 187 - 221
Copyright
Copyright © Institute and Faculty of Actuaries 1936

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