Re: [lojban] Re: periodic hexadecimal reminder

[Invent Yourself <xod@sixgirls.org>]

On Sat, 29 Sep 2001 thinkit8@lycos.com wrote:

> it's pretty simple.  16 is a power of 2.  8 is too, but the exponent
> is not itself a power of 2.  4 is nice, however--i should look into
> those egyptians.



Here you go. They used base 10!

http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Egyptian_numerals.html






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