From: Luke-Jr (luke@dashjr.org)
Date: Fri Jun 04 2010 - 14:35:24 CDT
On Friday 04 June 2010 02:23:46 pm Michael Everson wrote:
> On 4 Jun 2010, at 21:14, Luke-Jr wrote:
> > 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.
>
> One mentioned 0123456789ABCDEF, and the fact that one has software already
> which does sums in this hexadecimal notation.
That works for software, but not so much for human communication.
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