tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jul 07 07:54:18 1998
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Re: Question from a newbie
- From: Terrence Donnelly <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Question from a newbie
- Date: Tue, 07 Jul 1998 09:53:08 -0500
At 05:18 PM 7/6/98 -0700, DloraH wrote:
>We didn't say that nothing holds places. its just that [zero] can't hold a
>place. A value of something is needed to hold a place.
>the number 10 in base 3... that first digit is equal to the value of 3. The
>zero merely keeps it in that position.
> Well since klingon doesn't use zero as a place holder what keeps that 1 in
>the first position? nothing. So it drops over to the second position with
>the equivalent value of 3.
> Think of hexidecimal, but only go to A and don't use zero.
>1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A 11 12 ... 19 1A 21 22 etc
>
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