h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

This IS getting good!

::munches ::

::: yoinks some of Shea's :::

::peers into empty container::

Why is it I'm always running out of ?

Here, have some of mine.

::proffers ::

Er, about the numbers: I invented a binary/hexidecimal system that seems ideally suited for the Thingite cause. It works like this:
For each hexidecimal place, there is a vowel for zero, a consonant for 1, a pronunciation consonant (when the second and third binary digits are both zero, so you can pronounce it.), and a pronunciation vowel (always goes between two number-consonants).
Ones place:
o, l, t, i
0=
0000
potoo

1=
0001
potol

2=
0010
oolo

3=
0011
oolil

4=
0100
oloo

/* from here on, binary omitted; I think you can make sense of how it works. */

5=olol

6=olilo

7=olilil

8=lotoo

9=lotol

10=lolo

11=lolil

12=liloo

13=lilol

14=lililo

15=lililil

Get it?

The sixteens digit is the same pattern with
e(pronounce single e as é or long A), v, m, y(like long I)

I will write more when I have time, including how to do large numbers.
This was originally designed as a system for a 16 hour day, so I have had to adapt it somewhat.

(So, if you were paying attention, you would notice that 48 rhymes with "revive".)

You have 0000 as potoo. Should that be ootoo

Similarly should 0001 be ootol.

In a normal week there are 168 hours.

With a 16 hour day there would be 10 and a half days in a week.

Which means we need 4 more day names. And what do you call half a day?

::munches some of EvilRoy's :: Thanks!

No, I mean each (new) hour is a (current) hour and a half long, and you were right about the "P"s. Late night typo...

Ok, you have totally lost this math on that.

Each time-it-takes-for-the--to-revolve-once is divided into 16 segments, ninety minutes each.

yeah... it's the whole pronunciation thing that forks me up.

::takes some Tylenol and twiddles::

::watches the 16 segments of the revolving::

Okay, forget about the time thing. But I think the names of the months need some work. I mean, starting the year with Awful doesn't seem good.

okey dokey

I understood about the time thing. The day would be broken up into 16 NewHours rather than the 24 Oldhours.

A NewHour being 90 minutes long.

What do you hope to achieve by having a 16 hour day? The hours in my day seem long enough already.

Well, it can all be kept track of easily in binary. It also allows you to make some really cool-looking watches.

16 hours in a day - 90 minutes each
16 segments in an hour - almost 6 minutes each
16 sub-segments in a segment - about a third of a minute
16 ticks in a sub-segment, if you need to be that precise.

And it works with my pronounciation system...
I'm currently in the process of making a conversion program from standard time to "my" time.