Re: Base 8 counting in Gevey

On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 06:05:40 -0400, Patrick Jarrett <seraph@...>
wrote:

>pi in base 8 is 3.1103755242102643021514230630505557
>
>As according to http://wims.unice.fr/~wims/en_tool~number~baseconv.en.phtml
>
>I had done some research for my world and actually done the same thing,
>converted pi, e, and other common irrational numbers to base 8.
Cool! I could write my own, but this is more convenient.

pi in base 12 is 3.184809493B918664573A6211BB0B
e in base 12 is 2.8752360698219BA71971009B3889
(sqrt(5)+1)/2 in base 12 is 1.74BB6772802A46A6A1865307148B
exp(log(2)/12) in base 12 is 1.086903A21B3B727130196A093204

Tirelhat uses base 12. The Velika font includes extra digits for 10 and 11,
mapped to 'A' and 'B'. The digit 10 looks like a '2' turned 180 degrees,
and 11 is like a mirror-image '3'. In bases higher than 12, Tirelhat uses
letters of the Velika alphabet for the extra digits.

Hmm, if I ever get to the point where the Velika script is stable enough to
make a CSUR proposal for it, should only the extra digits be encoded or all
12 digits? Is there any precedent for that sort of thing? On the one hand,
the semantic value is different (for one thing, Latin script numerals must
be used in trademarked names, never Velika script numerals, but this could
be considered a language-specific rendering issue). On the other hand,
they're directly equivalent to the (rare) usage of Latin script numerals in
writing base 12 numbers.

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