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My name is Vaughan J. Thompson. I hold a BA in mathematics from San Diego State University (1962). I am currently researching the feasibility and methodology for fully replacing decimal arithmetic with "octal arithmetic" by every person. The primary reason is that the United States would realize an annual economic savings of $12 billion. Children would learn arithmetic in less than one-half of the time required for decimal arithmetic. Octal arithmetic brings together the two concepts of (1) law of successive bisection and (2) metric concept. In decimal arithmetic these two concepts clash with each other, but in octo-arithmetic, the metric concept is a true subset of the law of successive bisection (a beautiful marriage)Vaughanth 02:31, 4 January 2010 (UTC)