Quote from: casascius on February 07, 2011, 06:20:52 AM

Quote from: Luke-Jr on February 07, 2011, 04:09:45 AM

You (and others) need to recognize that if you want BitCoin to succeed, you must be open to ideals that don't appeal to you personally.

so if I want Bitcoin to succeed, I need to start using the character "9" to mean the quantity ten. Hmph, I'll pass. My kids will learn that it means nine. Grin

No, you can use whatever you want. But at least don't oppress those who choose to use "9" to mean the quantity of 8+2. Actually, it should be a "", but "9" is tolerated and I didn't feel like having and extra "9" key somewhere for decimal. When teaching, I always make sure I do a proper "" (with a full 6-like loop) for the Tonal digit "ko".

Quote from: slush on February 07, 2011, 09:38:05 AM

What is all this stuff for? What's wrong on decimals? And no, I'm not American.

How many fingers do you have?

Decimal is unnatural for humans. Finger count is irrelevant. Should we use base 20 because of our toes? If you really want to count on your fingers, base 5 is better than base 10-- you can read 55 (35 decimal) that way. Or binary, then you can hit 11111111 (255 deci) without trouble (due to finger dynamics, I find it difficult to use the ring finger). I personally use binary for finger counting, each hand representing a single Tonal digit.

Quote from: dirtyfilthy on February 07, 2011, 02:19:42 PM

Can't you just fork the bitcoin client, implement tonal bit coins, and then everyone(?) who wants to use tonal can use it and we can stop having this pointless discussion. It's all binary underneath anyway, how you display the numbers is a purely cosmetic change.

I agree, it should be. However, right now, it isn't all (simply) binary underneath. It's an encoded floating-point Decimal BitCoin value at the RPC level. This creates problems for Decimal as well, since the common decimal number of 0.1 cannot be represented by floats. But that's another topic.