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Re: Base 8 counting in Gevey

From:Stefan Koch <oneofthree@...>
Date:Thursday, October 18, 2001, 8:17
Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> wrote:

>I've read of one that goes all the way up to 24. AFAIK, it doesn't >use bases, so that there's no way to say "25".
Well, IMHO it can if the language contains mathmatical operators. One could say "two times twenty-four plus three". Bases are just abbreviations for that. Stefan -- GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.net