On Friday 04 June 2010 02:23:46 pm Michael Everson wrote: > On 4 Jun 2010, at 21:14, Luke-Jr wrote: > > 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.
That works for software, but not so much for human communication.
