Re: dozenal and hexadecimal digits

From: Michael Everson (everson@egt.ie)
Date: Tue May 16 2000 - 06:47:01 EDT


Me and Chris:

>> >Duodecimal math. Elves used it. But they have their own digits. See
>> > http://www.egt.ie/standards/iso10646/pdf/tengwar.pdf
>>
>> Does this mean that elves had six digits on each hand?

Hold your palm facing you. Take your thumb and touch the bottom knuckle of
your little finger. 1. Move up to the middle knuckle. 2. Move up to the
fingertip. 3. Move to the bottom knuckle of your ring finger. 4. Move up to
the middle knuckle. 5. Move up to the fingertip. 6. Move to the bottom
knuckle of your middle finger. 7. Move up to the middle knuckle. 8. Move up
to the fingertip. 9. Move to the bottom knuckle of your index finger. 10.
Move up to the middle knuckle. 11. Move up to the fingertip. 12.

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