Re: Base 8 counting in Gevey

>From: Herman Miller <hmiller@...>
>Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 20:55:00 -0400
>
>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.
>
Cool.  I'm gonna snip and save these since Graavg'aaln is also base 12.
Hmm. I wonder what pi is called in Graavg'aaln . . .

Adam

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