Re: Base 8 counting in Gevey

Christophe Grandsire scripsit:

> I meant: to represent in writing. Celtic languages do fine with Arabic numbers,
> based on base 10, while their numbers are on base 20.
For that matter, Germanic languages have no trouble writing "23" and saying
"three-and-twenty" (though English has gotten out of the habit over the last
few centuries).

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