Re: Base 8 counting in Gevey

Nik Taylor scripsit:

> Or Japanese (and, I believe, other east Asian languages) righting a
> comma after every three digits, but naming numbers in groups of four,
> saying, in essence, 1,0000 but writing 10,000.
This I think *does* make life hard, at least on those rare occasions
when one deals with large numbers like 1,0000,0000.

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