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Re: Base 8 counting in Gevey

From:Dungeonmaster <dungeonmaster@...>
Date:Friday, October 26, 2001, 21:37
> Christophe Grandsire scripsit: > > > I meant: to represent in writing. Celtic languages do fine with > Arabic numbers, > > based on base 10, while their numbers are on base 20. > > For that matter, Germanic languages have no trouble writing "23" > and saying > "three-and-twenty" (though English has gotten out of the habit > over the last > few centuries).
15 -> fifteen 16 -> sixteen etc. Old habits die hard... Maarten van Beek