On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 Bruce Kellett bhkell...@optusnet.com.au wrote:
Maybe because base 12 is more sensible than base 10? The Babylonians, who
had something to do with our numeral system, worked in base 60. Which is
why we have 360 degrees in a circle, etc.
I think if we used base 8 computers
On 03 Feb 2015, at 00:36, John Mikes wrote:
FRIENDS - MAINLY BRUNO
(it all came out from the French numbers).
any thoughts why some numerals have specific names, others use
composites?
Example: (Fr:) onze, ...seize yet dixset etc. German elf, zwoelf yet
dreizehen...
same in English
On 3 February 2015 at 13:09, Bruce Kellett bhkell...@optusnet.com.au
wrote:
LizR wrote:
I think English, French, German all start composite numbers around 13?
(Maybe a Christian influence?)
I'm not sure you can deduce base 2 from half-eyed etc. And I imagine 5
was given a different design
On 4 February 2015 at 08:59, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
Note that for 0 you need an invisible stick! But it works.
I always carry one of those, to fend off Pookas.
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On 2/3/2015 12:32 PM, LizR wrote:
On 3 February 2015 at 13:09, Bruce Kellett bhkell...@optusnet.com.au
mailto:bhkell...@optusnet.com.au wrote:
LizR wrote:
I think English, French, German all start composite numbers around 13?
(Maybe a
Christian influence?)
I'm not
LizR wrote:
I think English, French, German all start composite numbers around 13?
(Maybe a Christian influence?)
I'm not sure you can deduce base 2 from half-eyed etc. And I imagine 5
was given a different design because it makes a full hand, so to speak.
I imagine types of music that evolved
FRIENDS - MAINLY BRUNO
(it all came out from the French numbers).
any thoughts why some numerals have specific names, others use composites?
Example: (Fr:) onze, ...seize yet dixset etc. German elf, zwoelf yet
dreizehen...
same in English, Hungarian has composites above 10, Russian Italian etc
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