infoverse - octomatics

<html> <head> <title>infoverse - octomatics</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../style.css"> </head> <body bgcolor="white" text="#333333" link="#003366" alink="white" vlink="black" background="../media/back.gif"> <table width="100%" height="98%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" border="0"> <tr> <td valign="top" align="center"> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" border="0"> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top"></td> <td> <img src="media/octomatics-logo.gif" width="182" height="19" border="0"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top">description </td> <td>the octomatics project is about a new number system which has a lot of advantages over our old decimal system. the name comes from the mixture of 'octal' and 'mathematics'. what do you think: why do we have the decimal system in our western world? because of our 10 fingers? why do we have 7 days a week? why are 60 seconds 1 minute and 60 minutes 1 hour? why do we have 24 hours a day? and 31 or 30 days a month? do you think thats a really good solution? well, here is another one: ...welcome to octomatics ! </td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top">the new numbers </td> <td>how many numbers are the optimum? 8? 10? 12? 16? i think it's 8 or 12. make it 8 and you will be able to read and work with binary code without any transformation. i think the numbers should look more technically than letters. maybe they could look like the following: <img src="media/numbers.gif" width="200" height="185" border="0"> what would be the binary code? it should be: 000 . 001 . 010 . 011 . 100 . 101 . 110 . 111 <img src="media/octomatics-print.gif" width="228" height="10" border="0"> do you see any similarities? if you want to write it really fast by hand it might look like this after a while: <img src="media/octomatics-written.gif" width="229" height="22" border="0"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top">calculation </td> <td>the really good thing about the octomatics-number-system is that you can calculate visually. just add or remove the strokes! <img src="media/octo-calc.gif" border="0" width="194" height="96"><img src="media/octo-calc-anim.gif" width="72" height="96" border="0"> (...of course: if 2 strokes hit they will be "destroyed" and carried one position left when adding...pretty much like normal <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_numeral_system#Binary_arithmetic" target="_blank">binary math</a>). try it...it's very easy! for multiplication you still need to memorize the multiplication- table...but it is much smaller and easier than the decimal one: <img src="media/octo-multi.gif" border="0" width="198" height="183"> how about counting with your fingers? just use your 8 fingers to count...you still have the two thumbs for the powers: that means you can count up to 24 that way! or you do it the binary way (we will show you some pictures about that soon...). pro: you fingers look exactly like the numbers and you can count to 31 with one hand and up to 1023 with both!! </td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top">chronology </td> <td>forget what you know about hours, days and weeks. only leave the natural time measurements (day: earth turns round 1 time, month: moon period, year: summer + winter) and you could end up like this: one day has 8 units (see below): <img src="media/zeitkreis.gif" width="263" height="230" border="0"> one week has 8 days (you have one more day to relax...smile) about 4 weeks make one month (3.8 to be exact...today that's 4.345). 12 month make one year...just like today. what about world time? we thought about that...and we think swatch-beats are stupid. more about that soon... by the way: this is the octomatics time you spent on this website: (you need the flash-plugin): <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=4,0,2,0" width="120" height="28"> <param name="movie" value="octo-timer.swf"> <param name="quality" value="low"> <param name="play" value="true"> <embed src="octo-timer.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="120" height="28" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" quality="low" play="true"> </object> </td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top">tools </td> <td align="left" valign="top"> here you find some little tools which will help you to get started with your switch to the octomatics world ;-) maybe you still need to be compatible to the old decimal system sometimes. in that case you may find this a helpful tool: <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=4,0,2,0" width="230" height="80"> <param name="movie" value="octoconvert.swf"> <param name="quality" value="best"> <param name="play" value="true"> <embed src="octoconvert.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="230" height="80" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" quality="best" play="true"> </object> we still need to convince texas instruments that this would be a really important and profitable new device: <img src="media/calculator.jpg" width="200" height="363" border="0"> in the meantime we will have to put up with our handhelds: <a href="octocalc_flash.htm" target="_blank"><img src="media/octocalc-kl.jpg" width="200" height="271" border="0"></a> we haven't finished our 'octocalc.prc'...but here you can get the feeling for it with our <a href="octocalc_flash.htm" target="_blank">flash-version</a>. </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" align="right">"real" world </td> <td valign="top">on the 20.01.2001 the nation <a href="http://www.ambulo.de/organon.htm" target="organon">organon</a> officially announced the adoption of the octomatics number system as the main national number system. <img src="media/organon.gif" width="54" height="80" border="0"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" align="right">feedback </td> <td valign="top">of course we know, that a wide utilization of octomatics is not going to happen in the near future;-). the octomatics project is just a fun example to show, what can be done with simple visual concepts and some fresh thinking. but habit is a strong force...and we are deeply rooted in our decimal number system...but who knows...?so...what do you think about this system? i hope you got some inspiration and became a little octimised ;-). send wishes, ideas or comments to: <a href="mailto:octomatics@iverse.org">octomatics@iverse.org</a> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="bottom" align="center"></td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>

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