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- Good explaination of the concept. Too often we (as in the set of programmers) make big assumptions, because we (as individual programmers) know (and understand) what is meant to be said, and therefore leave it unsaidAndrew– Andrew2012-09-09 10:46:23 +00:00Commented Sep 9, 2012 at 10:46
- @Andrew Thanks. I have added a second part trying to illustrate the concept of bases visually.phant0m– phant0m2012-09-09 10:59:28 +00:00Commented Sep 9, 2012 at 10:59
- Even better... because this just about illustrates how the Roman's (What have they done for us?) came up with their numbering... One is a I... five Is became an V, two Vs an X Five Xs became an L, two Ls a C etc So in effect, they had a binary, pentary (?) systemAndrew– Andrew2012-09-09 11:07:44 +00:00Commented Sep 9, 2012 at 11:07
- @Andrew A good observation, they even put these "markers" as I called them (I have no idea whether there is any "official" terminology on this matter) explicitly into their numbers, whereas we have the implicitly by position.phant0m– phant0m2012-09-09 11:26:36 +00:00Commented Sep 9, 2012 at 11:26
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