RE: dozenal and hexadecimal digits

From: Michael Everson ([email protected])
Date: Sun May 14 2000 - 06:43:47 EDT


Ar 23:54 -0800 2000-05-11, scr�obh [email protected]:

>Out of curiosity, may I ask you what duodecimal numbers are used for?

Duodecimal math. Elves used it. But they have their own digits. See
http://www.egt.ie/standards/iso10646/pdf/tengwar.pdf

>And, by the way, do you know whether base-4 numbers have a special name?

Tetradecimal, I suspect.

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