tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Oct 23 09:19:45 1997
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Re: base 3 (was RE: vIghojqa')
- From: [email protected] (valwina)
- Subject: Re: base 3 (was RE: vIghojqa')
- Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 12:12:35 -0400
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Subject: Re: base 3 (was RE: vIghojqa')
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 01:41:32 +0000
Jatlh mughtej:
The Mayan and *Azteca* used a based-20 system, which was used in part of their calender system. Their calender had:
20 days = 1 month
18 months + (5 dead days) = 1 year.
20 years = 1 generation.
20 generations = 1 era
However their numbering system used a pure 20-base, not a 20-18-20..-base, even though some books have stated such. I am familiar with the Aztecanahuatl language enough to have verified this myself.
Some languages still have remnants of a 20-base system:
Fran�ais, to say 72: (one says in French 60 and 12). 80 (foour-score), etc.
Euskara which happens to be spoken in northern Espa�a and south-western France, as well as Cymru language (spoken west England) use a 20-base system below a hundred. (However modern Cymru has been using a base-10 system for a few decades now).
The Babylonians (the ones that wrote in the cuneiform script) used a base-60 system. From which we do get our 12-hour half-days, and 60-minute and -second hour and minute respectively, and our 360-degree circle.
I have been using a base-3 system for fun.
However instead of digits {1,2,3}, I use {-1,0,+1} as the digits.
mughtej jIH.
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the Metamorphologist
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