On 4 Jun 2010, at 21:14, Luke-Jr wrote: >> A wide variety of numeric systems ***IS*** supported in the UCS. You can do >> sums in Sumerian and Egyptian and Linear B and Phoenician and lots of other >> numeric systems. > > Sumerian is basically bar counting, and the others are all base 10. Hardly a > wide variety, just different symbols meaning the same thing. None of which > provide 16 digits needed for a hexadecimal numbering system.
One mentioned 0123456789ABCDEF, and the fact that one has software already which does sums in this hexadecimal notation. Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
