The Birkana hexadecimal number symbols
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The Birkana hexadecimal number symbols
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#2That's just binary? I find hex notation much easier to use and to communicate verbally.
Re: The Birkana hexadecimal number symbols
#3That's just binary? I find hex notation much easier to use and to communicate verbally.
I was thinking the same thing. If you're going binary just have a 4 x 4 dice face with different numbers of dots filled in.
Re: The Birkana hexadecimal number symbols
#4That's just binary? I find hex notation much easier to use and to communicate verbally.
If you can fit up to 16 "symbols" per "place", like you can here, it's hexadecimal, no? Either way, 0-F is a lot easier.
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#5That's just binary? I find hex notation much easier to use and to communicate verbally.
There are 16 symbols, so it's hexadecimal.
The symbols themselves neatly match the binary representation of 4 bits, so you can look at the numbers and see them as binary numbers in groups of four if you wish.
These would be great hexadecimal symbols for programmers.
Re: The Birkana hexadecimal number symbols
#6That's just binary? I find hex notation much easier to use and to communicate verbally.
There are 16 symbols, so it's hexadecimal. The symbols themselves neatly match the binary representation of 4 bits, so you can look at the numbers and see them as binary numbers in groups of four if you wish. These would be great hexadecimal symbols for programmers.
I get what the parent is saying, though. It's just binary digits on a weird looking vertical number line. Each part of the "digit" may as well be a zero or a 1, because that's all it represents. Position tells us what the value is, 2^0, 2^1, 2^2, or 2^3, no need for different symbols. And while we're at it, let's write it left-to-right MSB first, because that's how other numbers work, and it fits on a line nicely, like so: 0101.
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#7Huh, you could use a double-sided version of this for a byte.
Re: The Birkana hexadecimal number symbols
#8That's just binary? I find hex notation much easier to use and to communicate verbally.
If you can fit up to 16 "symbols" per "place", like you can here, it's hexadecimal, no? Either way, 0-F is a lot easier.
> Either way, 0-F is a lot easier.
Easier for us because it's the conventional way hexadecimal was represented in computer history, and how we learned it.
That rune-like system is more "logical" in the way you can visually read the value by summing the segments/bits value composing the berkanam rune from least significant at top to the most significant at bottom.
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#9Tldr: "While the hexadecimal notation of using the first six letters of the alphabet is practical in a rough-and-ready sort of way, no one ever accused it of being elegant.,But to this day, the only result I've managed to find in my searches has been a mailing list post in the discussions of The International Slide Rule Group--probably not a very prominent corner of the online world.,Birkana is a Runic symbol set for expressing the hexadecimal number radix, but it's designed in such a way that the exact shape of each number rune is built by combining a basic shape for the number zero and accents which correspond to the numbers 1, 2, 4, and 8.,I find it easiest to sum up starting at the highest possible number, then adding on the next-highest number, and so on. As you can see, every combination of the zero line and the accents will give us a hexadecimal number .,Notice also the exact positions of the accents--they intersect with the zero line at either the top, middle, or bottom, and they end up parallel to exactly a quarter of the way up or down the zero line.,Theoretically, the Unicode Consortium could decide to add the Birkana symbols to the Unicode specification and some enterprising font designer could come up with a set for general use."
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#10I think there is a problem with this notation - it is not self aligning. Meaning that if you hand wrote these you could then easily mis-read the values. It would probably be okay in printed form or if you were using lined paper, using the ruled line as a centre point.