Re: OT: Need help with numeric bases
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, February 25, 2003, 8:45 |
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En réponse à Tim May <butsuri@...>:
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> This is a very interesting system, which I hadn't seen before. Does
> anyone know of any historical numeric systems operating on this basis?
>
In a partially positional way only, most older numeric systems work like that.
Look at Ancient Greek numerals for instance. Although not totally positional
(you have different digits for 1-10, 20-90 and 100-900), the system is the same.
Christophe.
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