Re: dozenal and hexadecimal digits

From: Christopher John Fynn ([email protected])
Date: Thu May 11 2000 - 19:04:41 EDT

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Michael Everson <[email protected]> wrote:

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>>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

Does this mean that elves had six digits on each hand?

BTW Why haven't we yet seen a proposal from Ireland for the leprechaun script?

- Chris

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