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# night


do you reckon if we had two less fingers we'd have developed a base 8 counting system?
(I helped save b3ta! Tom OBedlam I have control of a tank, Mon 7 Jul 2008, 0:48, archived)
# :D
(I helped save b3ta! ClanSoul, Mon 7 Jul 2008, 0:49, archived)
# We have developed a base 8 counting system, haven't we?
(I helped save b3ta! Kamikaze Stoat £4.09, Mon 7 Jul 2008, 0:49, archived)
# we have a base 10 counting system
though the celts operated on a base 12 system
(I helped save b3ta! Tom OBedlam I have control of a tank, Mon 7 Jul 2008, 0:50, archived)
# And then there's imperial
in Base Lolwut
(I helped save b3ta! Kamikaze Stoat £4.09, Mon 7 Jul 2008, 0:52, archived)
# which is the technichal name i believe
(I helped save b3ta! Tom OBedlam I have control of a tank, Mon 7 Jul 2008, 0:53, archived)
# yes!
although, didn't the babylonians or somesuch use base-12 or something like that?
(I helped save b3ta! charlie?, Mon 7 Jul 2008, 0:51, archived)
# ah, celts
i was close...
(I helped save b3ta! charlie?, Mon 7 Jul 2008, 0:53, archived)
# i'm think of yan tan tetra which used the base as the number of digits on the four fingers of one hand
(I helped save b3ta! Tom OBedlam I have control of a tank, Mon 7 Jul 2008, 0:54, archived)
# that's the shepherds' one, right?
(I helped save b3ta! charlie?, Mon 7 Jul 2008, 0:56, archived)
# yup
(I helped save b3ta! Tom OBedlam I have control of a tank, Mon 7 Jul 2008, 0:59, archived)
# On the planet of the Dave Allen people they celebrated their 950th anniversary recently.
(Jeru War and Piss, Mon 7 Jul 2008, 0:52, archived)