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I'm fascinated by the Inuit-Yupik-Unangan languages in Alaska, Canada and G… | |
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The students built base-20 abacuses. These were initially intended to help con… | |
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The students discovered their new system made arithmetic easier than it was wit… | |
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The students also found that long division was more fun with Kaktovik numerals!… | |
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After the students of Kaktovik invented their new numerals, their scores on sta… | |
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@johncarlosbaez This is very nice.But what I like about non-standard pictures l… | |
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Why is Scientific American talking about Kaktovik numerals just *now*? It'… | |
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Finally, here's a map of Inuiit languages! The Kaktovik numerals were inve… | |
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@johncarlosbaez What about a \(\LaTeX\) package? | |
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@johncarlosbaez I've been obsessing over this since I read about it earlier… | |
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@irisvirus - I'll do it. I know that word is considered bad by some, but t… | |
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@rjf_berger - I someone makes one! The new Kaktovic numeral unicode block doe… | |
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@F9Analytics - no, it can't maintain a pattern, because 10 is 2 slashes. T… | |
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@johncarlosbaez. French people will love it | |
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@Catweazle @johncarlosbaez Bretons especially: 40, 60, 80 and sometimes 100, 1… | |
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@graham_knapp @Catweazle - do Bretons use base 20 more than French? In French … | |
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@johncarlosbaez Very nifty. The Mayans also used a base 20/5 system, didn't… | |
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@TerryHancock - I knew Mayans used base 20, but I didn't know the details. … | |
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@TerryHancock @johncarlosbaez Linguistically unrelated, but it also reminds me … | |
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@davej @TerryHancock - wow, I hadn't known about the Cumbrian system. This… | |
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@dpnash - yeah, it's amazing. I think I'm just gradually getting it. | |
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@johncarlosbaez @davej @TerryHancock The Celtic languages used to be widely spo… | |
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@thebluewizard - thanks! | |
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@johncarlosbaez, it remeber me to this onehttps://www.zmescience.com/science/ci… | |
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@Catweazle - cool, thanks! I'm starting to really like these lesser-known… | |
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@johncarlosbaez Reminds me a little bit of the system in Myst.https://dni.fando… | |
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@reziplikativ - thanks, I'll check it out! I've seen Myst but not gott… | |
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@johncarlosbaez It's interesting that they use the ñ sound and symbol | |
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@johncarlosbaez I never knew this about Kaktovik. It's about the smallest I… | |
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@amkhosla - That's a great shot. And it's impressive that you've a… | |
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@johncarlosbaez This might interest you: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26… | |
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@johncarlosbaez There's also ogham, but that's a completely different c… | |
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@wolfnowl - interesting! But those are letters, not numerals, right? | |
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@johncarlosbaez @davej @TerryHancock "Four score and seven years ago...&qu… | |
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@johncarlosbaez I think the Mayans also used the base 20 system. | |
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@johncarlosbaez Others have mentioned that Mayans also used 5 and 20 as bases i… | |
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@bishop6 - neat! I hadn't known that, though I knew a tiny bit about Mayan… | |
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@johncarlosbaez I wasn't consciously aware, but interestingly, the #Khmer #… | |
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@johsvogel - neat, I've been to Cambodia but I didn't know that. In Lu… | |
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@johncarlosbaez it looks very cool but it should be in octal or hexadecimal. | |
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@triadne - that would be good for some people, but not the people who designed … | |
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@johncarlosbaez #Metamath's compressed proof format uses a mixed radix syst… | |
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@johncarlosbaez I boosted your post before realising your following post contai… | |
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@campbellb - I got rid of that slur. I thought I'd gotten rid of it everyw… | |
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@JFernandoPascualS - yes! And like the Inuit, they also use a sub-base of 5: | |
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@johncarlosbaez Your findings are really very interesting and I think I might b… | |
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@HistoPol - Fixed! I thought I'd gotten rid of that word everywhere a week… | |
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@johncarlosbaez This is a fascinating read. Thank you. | |
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@richardtroupe - thanks! |