[OT] Re: How are you enjoying DConf? And where to go next?

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Sat, 2016-05-07 at 15:17 +0000, Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
> 
[…]
> Besides, zero is just as arbitrary as thirty-two (which, btw, is 
> a power of two*) and easy to remember if you use it anyway! I 
[…]

0 is a power of two as well.

> * I really think that's the main difference between American 
> units and the others - base two vs base ten. Base two is superior 
> in basically every way, but base ten is more newbie friendly for 
> doing irrelevant conversions.

They are not American units, they are Imperial units. Well except that
Americans give the same name to different values of the dimension.

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Russel.
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