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Re: Vocab #5

From:Jake X <alwaysawake247@...>
Date:Sunday, April 28, 2002, 18:52
   >> > Eight is a nice number, about the same order of magnitude as our
   >>ten,
   >> > but it divides nicer: 2 x 2 x 2 rather than 2 x 5. Most
   >>importantly:
   >> > It's not ten! Is there anything more boring than ten-based
   >>systems?
   I can't agree with you more.
   Interesting to bring up bases. I don't have my own conlang as yet, but I'm
   thinking about it, and one of my ideas is to have a number system that can
   support all bases, with some kind of indicator if anything other than the
   usual ten is used. Do you know of any language (nat- or con-), with that
   function?

   This summer I taught myself the old Babylonian writing system, which is
   based on a base 60, but is very easy to learn because of the repetitiveness
   of its characters.

   Jake Schneider
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Tim May <butsuri@...>