Re: Possible base-20 numeric system

From: "Andreas Johansson"

[in reply to me]

>> And what about Sumerian and Akkadian? Base 60 is inevitably dual-base,
>> since
>> you can't square an integer and get 60.
>
> Eh? How is it any more inevitably dual-base than base 10? It's not like
> there's
> an integer that squares to ten either.
Yeah, good point... I meant that you have to mix either 10 and 6 or 20 and 3
(I forget which one). With full-decimal languages like English, Arabic,
Spanish, Russian, etc. it's 10x10x10, and 100, unlike 60, is the square of
10.

But even base 60 repeats ad infinitum: 60, 3600, 216000...

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