From: Luke-Jr (luke@dashjr.org)
Date: Fri Jun 04 2010 - 14:14:39 CDT
On Friday 04 June 2010 02:00:34 pm Michael Everson wrote:
> A wide variety of numeric systems ***IS*** supported in the UCS. You can do
> sums in Sumerian and Egyptian and Linear B and Phoenician and lots of
> other numeric systems.
Sumerian is basically bar counting, and the others are all base 10. Hardly a
wide variety, just different symbols meaning the same thing. None of which
provide 16 digits needed for a hexadecimal numbering system.
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