A brief history of numerical systems - Alessandra King
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1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9... and 0. With just these ten symbols, we can write any rational number imaginable. But why these particular symbols? Why ten of them? And why do we arrange them the way we do? Alessandra King gives a brief history of numerical systems.
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Meet The Creators
- Educator Alessandra King
- Director Michael Kalopaidis
- Script Editor Alex Gendler
- Producer Zedem Media
- Illustrator Jeanne Bornet
- Animator Maria Savva
- Sound Designer Andreas Trachonitis
- Associate Producer Jessica Ruby
- Content Producer Gerta Xhelo
- Editorial Producer Alex Rosenthal
- Narrator Julianna Zarzycki
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Different Types of Bases
Looking at how different types of numerical systems, and the videos by Artifexian(Edgar Grunewald), people could be creating number systems for things like conlangs. If you guys have any ideas for a number system, and glyphs for the numbers, add it to this discussion. Also, Grunewald might have a good idea of numbering systems having subbases. Like, imagine a base-12 system with senary as the subbase.
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