Wha????? Base 60 counting??? Please tell me there is someplace on the net
explaining this. I've always gotten a kick out of Babylonian (???) use of
B60 in time, but I've never heard of it in any sort of mathematically usable
way. 

Off into SF land now - imagine AI with Base 60 logic...

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on 1/12/00 4:22 PM, Jeff Szuhay at jeffs at pstnet.com wrote:

>> Hummm...  You're so right!
>> 
>> 36rSMALLTALK  => 80738163270632
> 
> <chuckle> why stop at 36? add lower case letters and then you
> have full backward compatibility with Phonecian base-60 counting
> system.
> 
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