Exposure to “new math” in public school left me well prepared to deal with number bases other than ten. Except maybe for octal and especially that abominable split octal.
Random thoughts I’m now forced to barf into this thread:
ASCII does not include a “new line character”, as shown on the chart included in the video, but thank you for saying it repeatedly, re-enforcing wrongly a concept that is (apparently) remarkably difficult for new-to-this-stuff folks to grasp.
Tom Lehrer produced a lovely ditty about “new math” back in the 60s, which seems appropriate to today’s “new math”, if you’ve been fiddling with that business at all…
This all reminds me of this guy:
and how supportive I think we need to be of his campaign to change how we teach schoolchildren to count properly.