Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vinkadecimal

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The result of the debate was DELETE. -Splash^talk 22:57, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Vinkadecimal

Dictdef for a neologism, coined by the author of the referenced computer program after himself. Could not find any uses outside of the context of the program. Ilmari Karonen 19:58, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

• comment. Vink has not invented the system "base 36". At best, he has invented the name "vinkadecimal". All n-ary systems (for any n>1) can be considered "known". --Aleph4 15:10, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Yes, of course. Base 36 (using 0-9, A-Z) is a common enough system, it's the silly vanity name I'm referring to. There's not much in the article that would be worth moving to generic base 36 article, so I suggest it just be deleted. Ilmari Karonen 17:06, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
  • The proper name for this system would be sexatrigesimal, hexatrigesimal or hexatridecimal, depending on which mixture of Greek/Latin roots one wants to use. All get about the same number of Google hits. (See hexadecimal for more information about the Greek/Latin naming confusion.) Ilmari Karonen 17:23, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
    • I have now created a proper article on base 36, since none existed yet. Feel free to improve it. Ilmari Karonen 23:37, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

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