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Re: Possible base-20 numeric system

From:Danny Wier <dawiertx@...>
Date:Sunday, October 24, 2004, 22:06
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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