Re: Numbers from 1-10

On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 08:12:14PM -0400, Isidora Zamora wrote:
> I don't usually count in dozens, but scores come naturally.
I count in decimal, personally.  I dislike fractions.

But I should point out that the ancient Babylonians' written
number system was base-60, due to the large number of integer
fractors.  Base-12 is therefore easy to imagine  - if you drop
the requirement that 5 be a factor, it's otherwise as good as 60,
and a lot more tractable.

> (We'll see if this post even arrives on the list before sometime late
> Monday night.  I've been having tons of trouble with my mail.)
For what it's worth, I received it at 2020 Sunday night EDT (0020 Monday
morning UTC).

-Mark

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