Re: More on number bases
| From: | Danny Wier <dawier@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, May 17, 2002, 20:04 |
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I've been toying with an idea of making a dual-base system: base-20 for
cardinals and base-12 for ordinals and fractions. The concept of this came
from the old monetary system of the U.K. (before 1971), where a pound was
divided into 20 shillings, and each shilling was worth 12 pence.
The vocabularies in Tech will also be very different; very likely will the
names for cardinals be based on, say Indo-European and Kartvelian, while the
ordinals could come from Hamito-Semitic.
The ancient Egyptians used base-8 fractions and base-10 whole numbers, if
I'm not mistaken.
~Danny~
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