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The bibi-binary notation is somewhat similar (16 === 2^2^2). It was patented in 1968 by Bobby Lapointe, a French variety singer, but didn't get much traction AF
by pygy_ 10y ago
The bibi-binary notation is somewhat similar (16 === 2^2^2). It was patented in 1968 by Bobby Lapointe, a French variety singer, but didn't get much traction AFAICT. Bibi-binary also has a custom pronunciation for hex digits.
The article is in French[0], but the main illustration that describes the system is self-explanatory[1].
0. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syst%C3%A8me_Bibi-binaire https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syst%C3%A8me_Bibi-binaire
1. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/Table_de_correspondance_entre_le_Bibinaire_et_les_autres_notations.svg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/Table_de...
- zokier 10y agoWhat's with the different BI/KI shapes? I would have expected them to be just rotated variations of each other, like for example BA/KE are
- blahedo 10y agoThe shapes are all able to be written in a way that visits points in the corners of the square in the same order (UL, LL, UR, LR). So 0111 and 1110 can be written with the skewed V shape because the 1's are in sequence, while 1011 and 1101 are written with rotated L shapes because they skip one of the middle bits. (Compare also 1111, a backwards N shape).
- blahedo 10y agoI just translated the article to English; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibi-binary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibi-binary .
- lccarrasco 10y agoThanks a lot! :)