Re: number bases (was without subject)
| From: | David Zitzelsberger <davidz@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 13, 2004, 17:57 |
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Not just traditional typography (I'd be curious which langauges this was
true), but English.
ten, eleven, twelve, thir-teen
dozen (10 in base twelve)
gross (100 in base twelve)
Any other languages with a language pre-disposition to another base?
-----Original Message-----
From: Benct Philip Jonsson [mailto:bpj@MELROCH.SE]
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 2:44 AM
To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
Subject: Re: number bases (was without subject)
Traditional typography practically worked in base twelve.
This was much more convenient for type geometry, because
12 is divisible by all of 2, 3, 4, 6 and itself, while 10
is only divisible by 2, 5 and itself.
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