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It'd be nice to replace all Roman numerals with cuneiform sexagesimal instead, aka 'Babylonian cuneiform'. It's a much better system. https://www.researchgate
by photochemsyn 4y ago
It'd be nice to replace all Roman numerals with cuneiform sexagesimal instead, aka 'Babylonian cuneiform'. It's a much better system.
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-cuneiform-notation-of-sexagesimal-digits-Zero-is-represented-by-a-blank-space-The_fig2_314097670 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-cuneiform-notation-o...
See also, the history of zero:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0#History
- banannaise 4y agoOr we could replace them with the same system of numeric notation, except using a more commonly recognized charset... as in Arabic numerals, which are exactly equivalent to Babylonian cuneiform since both use base 10 and positional notation.