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[-] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago

8 rocks would be 二四 in base 4

ok but what about 16? there's symbols for powers of 10 but not for powers of 4

[-] SuperApples@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

16 might break it.. 四四 makes no sense as 十十 makes no sense... you'd write 百 (100) instead.

And you get the same problem each time you go higher.

You'd need base 4 equivalents of 100 = 百, 1,000 = 千, 10,000 = 万, 100,000,000 = 億,.

Hmm, on the other hand you can have 十万 (100,000), so why not 四四 (16)? What's 20, though...

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