Re: ConNumbers
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 9, 1999, 14:16 |
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Chris Peters wrote:
> So I thought to myself, who would count in base-6? Certainly nobody I know
> about ... all natlangs I've even touched in my studies count in base-10.
Bases 2, 4, 5, 20, and 60 have been used, so 6 is not preposterous.
Fragments of base 60 appear in our measurements (60 seconds
per minute, 60 minutes per hour, 6 * 60 degrees in a circle),
and some languages have bits of base 20 left (French *quatre-vingt*
'80', Welsh more systematically).
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John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn.
You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn.
Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)