Re: ConNumbers

Boudewijn Rempt wrote:

> On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Tom Wier wrote:
>
> > Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> >
> > > If I recall rightly, the Babylonians have been the first attested culture
> > > with a base-12 system, of which traces abound in lots of languages.
> >
> > Are you sure?  I know their main system was based on 60, which
> > is why time is measured the way it is today.  I suppose other systems
> > could have existed alongside, though.
>
> No, not at all - I was trying to recall something from
> memory at three o'clock in the morning - my study is currently
> stacked with furniture and boxes with books up to the ceiling,
> so I've a little trouble getting at my references. Does
> wonders for the imagination! But I recall having read something
> like this in an old Dutch pop-science magazine, a long
> time ago. Anyway, if it isn't true, it ought to be!
Yeah, it'd be an interesting system to see worked out.  Oh, and
don't worry about working at three o'clock in the morning:  last
night I had to crash at about 12 because I was becoming quite
incoherent.

Here's a system I've never seen worked out, or even heard of:
a system based on pi, or e, or other irrational numbers like that.
Anyone want to take a crack at that?

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