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Re: Base 8 counting in Gevey

From:taliesin the storyteller <taliesin@...>
Date:Monday, October 15, 2001, 17:14
* Andreas Johansson said on 2001-10-15 19:04:50 +0200
> Is there a "reason" for base 8? I don't know any real-world language that > uses it (octal numbers in compsci don't count!), and unlike base 10 or base > 20 I can't think of any obvious conection to countable appendages etc.
What about the space -between- the fingers? :) t.

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