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Remembering the number of higher elements is a pain so if you do this in lieu of DNS it's not as clever as it first seems. I too had a co-worker who loved this
by bri3d 9y ago
Remembering the number of higher elements is a pain so if you do this in lieu of DNS it's not as clever as it first seems. I too had a co-worker who loved this naming scheme and I thought it was great, just not in lieu of having a name resolution scheme that's not "quick what number is strontium"
- delecti 9y agoIt limits you to 120-odd options, but that information is a quick web search away so I'm not sure the issue you mentioned is a huge restriction. Google provides it in their quick results search for "strontium atomic number".
- WorldMaker 9y agoYou could always use the Systematic names [1] to fill out the rest of the byte past the 118 proper named elements, giving you a full subnet of names. (ununennium through bipentpentium) I wonder if you start to do chemistry on the names if you need to track multiple subnets? 192.168.11.17 might be sodium-chloride (NaCl). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systematic_element_name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systematic_element_name