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amelius 26 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: How would you know whether an ancient culture had ...

The article has quite some assumptions. They also assume a base-N system with big-endian lexicographic ordering from left to right.

Has the author not heard of Roman numerals?

Ekaros 26 days ago [–]

It is very big assumption to me. It is now used very widely. But I am not sure if it was at all common back in the history. Most systems were kinda different from it.

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