Re: hexatridecimal internationalisation

From: Hans Aberg (haberg@math.su.se)
Date: Sun Jun 24 2007 - 17:39:19 CDT

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    On 24 Jun 2007, at 16:56, Michael Maxwell wrote:

    > You forget the Mayans :-). They developed a base-20 spoken and
    > written representation system (see e.g. http://www.michielb.nl/maya/
    > math.html). Modern Mayan languages (at least Tzeltal, with which I
    > am familiar) still use the spoken base-20 system, although AFAIK
    > the written system is no longer in use by the Maya themselves (as
    > opposed to archaeologists).

    Like the Danish and French.

       Hans Aberg



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