Notorious Gang-of-Four book author Ralph Johnson turned 100 today, were "100" reckoned in Radix 7.
It occured to me that "hundredth" birthdays, whatever the base, do an interesting job of dividing life into epochs: 4 (base 2), 9 (base 3), 16 (base 4), 25 (base 5), 36 (base 6), 64 (base 8), 81 (base 9), and, hence all the way up to that coveted Willard Scott show appearance... ...and maybe even 121...
A sort of Passages for New Math veterans...
Posted by foote at October 7, 2004 04:59 PM