On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 22:08:25 -0700, Ranée at Arabian Knits wrote:

> In article >,
> zxcvbob > wrote:
>
>> (actually, New Math was teaching young kids to work in different
>> number bases like octal and binary for no apparent reason.)
>
> I think it was fourth or fifth grade when they foisted that idiocy on
> us.

what is idiotic about teaching there other base numbers systems apart from
ten?

your pal,
blake