The Duodecimal Bulletin

Editor: Prof. Jay Schiffman

Associate Editor: Prof. Gene Zirkel

Contents:

• President’s Message | Jay Schiffman
  • Prof. Alice Berridge, former Treasurer, suffers heart attack and disabling stroke. Testimonial
• Reprint: An Ideal Number Base | Nina McClelland
• Science Fiction? | Anne Nonimus
  • Study of homoeosis and homoeotic genes at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY. Mentioned 6-fingered people.
• Whence the Octothorpe (#)? | Ralph Carlsen
• A Puzzle
• Internal Codes | suggested by Bob McPherson
  • Error correcting codes in ISBN and ISSN
  • Puzzles
• Three-Valued Logic: Ternary Computers & Money | Gene Kelly, with help of Andrew Denny
• In for a Pound | Martin Delgado | Mail, Sunday 29 August 2004
• Puzzle Answer
• Minutes of the Annual Board & Membership Meetings — 11B0_z (2004_d) | Christina K. D’Aiello, Secretary; Alice Berridge, Treasurer
  • Board of Directors Meeting
  • Annual Membership Meeting
    • Treasurer’s Report | Allice Berridge
    • Featured speaker: Jay Schiffman | The Most Appealing Integer TWELVE — Five Dozen Intriguing Ideas Where Dozens Play a Role
• Mail Bag
  • John, BWMA | lb/oz weighing machines — possible legal challenge
  • Jeff Wells | 144°_d circle, 144_d minutes per degree; 20736_d “niles” per circumference; 0.1_z nile = 0.1_d mile
  • Timothy Travis | If we only had twelve fingers and toes! "Deck, brad, doz"
• Teacher Arrested at Airport | Dr. Ted Labow & Karen Ryan
  • Satire about “Al-Gebra” and “weapons of math instruction”
• Internal Codes Puzzle Solutions
• Is Harry Potter a Dodekaphile?
  • What’s with All the 12s? | Bob Sindeldecker
  • www.metricsucks.com
    • Metricland, or What I Think of the Metric System | Joan Pontius
• Why Change?