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For the non-French people here: Bobby Lapointe is also a quite famous singer who loved plays on words, quite difficult to translate!
But reading the "pronunciation" line in the table made me smile and confirmed that it was.
From now on, I'll be singing the hexadecimal pointers when debugging C++ code.
HIHA !
It looks very similar to the "Logic Alphabet". http://www.logic-alphabet.net/images/flipstick_2347_2.jpg Both are systems of symbols meant to encode 4 bits of information. In both cases, pointy bits in the corners of the symbols represent 1 or true, while round bits are 0 or false. A difference is that in the case of bibi-binary the intent is to encode numbers, while the intent of the logic alphabet is to encode trut…
Obligatory to also mention the historical Cistercian digits, which used an in-digit encoding to create a base 10000 number system: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cistercian_digits_(v...
I'm very curious to learn more:
"It found some use in a variety of unforeseen applications: stochastic poetry, stochastic art, colour classification, aleatory music, architectural symbolism, etc.[citation needed]"That section on negative numbers seems incomplete. It doesn't indicate how you write negative numbers instead talks about how normal binary computers use twos complement. Edit: I think I was assuming you'd only use 4 bit or 8 bit values with this notation.
Are these in Unicode?
Nope, even finding similar glyphs is difficult for many.
It looks very similar to the "Logic Alphabet". http://www.logic-alphabet.net/images/flipstick_2347_2.jpg Both are systems of symbols meant to encode 4 bits of information. In both cases, pointy bits in the corners of the symbols represent 1 or true, while round bits are 0 or false. A difference is that in the case of bibi-binary the intent is to encode numbers, while the intent of the logic alphabet is to encode trut…
bibi-binary is intended to encode raw binary data, not specifically numbers (at least not beyond 15). We already have a script and words which work mostly fine for numbers after all.
> The other difference is that the inventor of bibi-binary was a comedian who obviously did it as a tongue-in-cheek novelty
He was also a mathematician — his studies stopped because of world war II forced labour (from which he escaped) and he did patent bibi-binary, it was not just a joke.
And calling him a comedian is a bit reductive, comedianship was his outlet for a passion for wordplay, something he first tried as a songwriter (and poet), but he could find no singer, so ultimately ended up doing it himself.
That section on negative numbers seems incomplete. It doesn't indicate how you write negative numbers instead talks about how normal binary computers use twos complement. Edit: I think I was assuming you'd only use 4 bit or 8 bit values with this notation.
As far as I can see the section on negative numbers was completely made up, or at least it is not sourced in the system's patent. The encoding was mostly defined as a way to transmit (and write down) binary data in nibbles (groups of 4 bits), it does not really concern itself with what that data encodes. The one thing it does support which the wiki does not note, is a run-length encoding: if a syllable ends in R, the…
HORBAR is repeat(0x0, count=5)
DIRHAHOR is repeat(0xF, count=16)
Also in script form this is written as a strange parenthetical. Strange because the repeated nibble gets an open paren "stuck" to it, like a tail. So repeated nibbles don't look much like their base form.
