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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

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