Re: Numeral systems was:Re: Getting into the intro game
| From: | Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 16, 2002, 4:38 |
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Must be read in monotype font!
At 7:36 am -0700 15/5/02, Clint Jackson Baker wrote:
>Siyo!
>Just off-hand, I know that in Ainu they use base 20
>and only have names for numbers up to 800 (base 10).
>
>Clint
>
>--- Jake X <alwaysawake247@...> wrote:
[snip]
>> >orthographies and non-base-10 counting, and also a
>> lack of skill in both
>> >subjects :(( .
>> >
>> Me too!!!! (ever done anything with the Akkadian
>> base 60?)
In this digital age of cyberspace, shouldn't we thinking of base 64?
:)
As Father Joachim Bouvet (17th cent. missionary to China), Gottfried
Leibniz & Umberto Eco have noticed, I Ching hexagrams provide us with the
symbols:
- - --- - - --- - - --- - - ---
- - - - --- --- - - - - --- ---
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- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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(The damn ASCIIization makes the hexagrams look tall and thin!)
The above is the Fuxi order which is the one sent to Leibniz by Fr Bouvet,
and not the Wengwang order given in books which use the hexagrams for
oracular purposes.
Ray.
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