Re: Possible base-20 numeric system

From: "Jeffrey Jones"

> Didn't know that about Hindi. I suppose Sanskrit is no worse than Polish?
I know little Sanskrit, but I think its number system is probably pretty
complicated. A lot of it is probably due to those sandhi rules.

> I'm considering an ordinary hum-drum base 1280 number system for one of my
> projects. This could be broken down into an alternation of base 32 and
> base
> 40.
I was just contemplating base-840, which can be divided by all whole numbers
from 1 to 8. Or base-2520, for 1 to 10. Then I just decided to stick with
base-60, which can handle 1 through 6. At least for now.

(All this work on Just Intonation is making me obsessed with prime numbers.)

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