Re: Vocab #5
| From: | Jake X <alwaysawake247@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, April 28, 2002, 18:52 |
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>> > 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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