Re: Possible base-20 numeric system

Quoting Danny Wier <dawiertx@...>:

> 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.
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.

                                                            Andreas

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