Re: Possible base-20 numeric system
| From: | Jeffrey Jones <jsjonesmiami@...> |
|---|
| Date: | Wednesday, October 27, 2004, 6:03 |
|---|
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 08:41:25 -0500, Danny Wier <dawiertx@...>
wrote:
>From: "Andreas Johansson"
>
> > It would be a load on memory, but there's no reason in principle you
> > couldn't have unanalyzable atomic words for 0-59 just like we've got
> > for 0-9 in decimal.
>
> I was thinking digit symbols, but Hindi has such an irregular naming
> system for 1-100 the words have to be memorized by rote.
Didn't know that about Hindi. I suppose Sanskrit is no worse than Polish?
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.
Jeff
Reply