http://www.metafilter.com/tags/base-14 Posts tagged with 'base-14' at MetaFilter. Fri, 22 Nov 2002 14:27:15 -0800 Fri, 22 Nov 2002 14:27:15 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/21817/number%2Dsystems%2Dof%2Dthe%2Dworld <a href="http://lancelot.uchicago.edu/log/archive/000154.html">Counting in base-14.</a> "Just because <i>we</i> use a decimal system doesn't mean everyone does. "The teseradecimal lifestyle is thus not just a way of life. It is not only a method of regulating marriage, birth, succession, and other aspects of village life. It is also a theory of history where genesis, finality, and apocalypse are laid out on the space between the pinky and the nose."<br> Alex Golub illuminates the counting system of the Ipili tribe of Papua New Guinea, in response to much <a href="http://www.leuschke.org/log/archives/week_2002_11_17.html#theres_been_a_f" title="the language of numbers and counting">discussion of the ethnomathmatics</a> at Leuschke.org. [more inside] tag:metafilter.com,2002:site.21817 Fri, 22 Nov 2002 14:27:15 -0800 base-14 numbers systems me3dia