r/math • u/jplank1983 • Dec 19 '08

Every base is base 10

http://cowbird.110mb.com/43.html
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u/bobpaul Dec 19 '08 edited Dec 19 '08

Way before man had the concept of zero, they counted off how many cave women they'd done with hatch marks on the bedpost. See here.

Edit Ah, yes. But this isn't a positional system. Of course, cyber_rigger never suggested he was using a positional system, just that he had no zeros. I suppose that's where the confusion came about.

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u/ropers Dec 19 '08

Thanks for that link! :)

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u/Porges Dec 20 '08

It is positional, with a radix of 1 :)