Re: measuring systems (was: Selenites)
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, September 28, 1998, 6:04 |
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Charles wrote:
> I'm wondering if base 12 or 6 or 20 have special conlang properties,
> useful enough so as to challenge base 10?
Sure. W. probably uses a base 24 system (I'm wondering whether to
revert to 12). Twelve is divisible by 2, 3, 4 and 6 - all common
numbers. Dividing into 5 yields an unwieldy repeating fraction
(.2497... in duodecimal notation), but 1/5 is a less common fraction
than 1/3 or 1/4 (respectively .4 and .3)
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