numbers vs letter grades (2 Viewers)

[Ms. BRIGHTSIDE]

Meh, I like my letter grades

Our school never tells us our ranks, although sometimes a teacher lets it slip to a student that they topped the grade, etc. Or you work it out eg by getting full marks. How do you know your name, do they post them up or something? Or tell you?

But how do you know if you got full marks if the only grade given is a letter ?

 

[selablad]

Well, getting A+'s...

They give you lots of A+'s in all different categories...and don't give them lightly.

Personally I think that school has too many numbers, but even more so in NSW...UAIs and marks and ranks and all that...

 

[Continuum]

I like numbers.

 

[jellybelly59]

Numbers FTW

 

[selablad]

*sigh* I guess I'm outnumbered then

 

[bored of sc]

*sigh* I guess I'm outnumbered then

lol, great pun (even better if it was unintentional)

 

[kaz1]

i prefer but we get letters in the school report

 

[foram]

what does letters have that numbers doesnt?

I guess, you could make a base 26 number system out of letters...

 

[foram]

why would you want 26 numbers when you can have 100

Not 26 numbers. Base 26 number system a-z.

Our decimal system is base 10, 0-9.

 

[kaz1]

i think a is good but z is crap

 

[selablad]

lol, great pun (even better if it was unintentional)

Haha, it was

 

[foram]

explain furthur please

remember how we have units, tens, hundreds, thousands...

well, for the units, it can be a number 0-9, and for tens it can be a number 0-9, and same for hundreds and thousand.

What if instead of numbers we used a-z. So we could have 26 letters in the units, 26 letters in the tens, 26 in the hundreds, and so on.

EDIT: its like binary, with 26 letters instead of only 0 and 1.

 

[kaz1]

remember how we have units, tens, hundreds, thousands...

well, for the units, it can be a number 0-9, and for tens it can be a number 0-9, and same for hundreds and thousand.

What if instead of numbers we used a-z. So we could have 26 letters in the units, 26 letters in the tens, 26 in the hundreds, and so on.

EDIT: its like binary, with 26 letters instead of only 0 and 1.

thats pretty confusing cause words might get confused with numbers

 

[foram]

thats pretty confusing cause words might get confused with numbers

yea. i know. But i was just pointing out how letters could be used to make number systems greater than base 10.