Jul 30 2007
New Math
More Tom Lehrer. This is a clever animation of New Math.
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As a Baby Boomer who got all As in math UNTIL New Math came along, I thank you for posting this. And again I say, why convert to Base 8? That’s not a system I’m planning on using during my stay on Earth. Perhaps when I move to the Planet Mongo, however …
Those of us who program computers frequently work with base 8 and base 16. Computers fundamentally operate in base 2, and it is convenient to represent unwieldy binary numbers more succintly in base 8 or, more commonly, base 16, both of which are powers of 2.
A bit of trivia: bit is a contraction of Binary digIT.