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

[Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d]

On 07-May-2016 19:50, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> 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.

0 is not a power of two. Any power of non-negative number is > 0.

>
>> * 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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Dmitry Olshansky