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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