OldMork t1_j9ygzpt wrote on February 25, 2023 at 2:21 PM

Good for them, but I fail to see the advantage, computers use binary, hex or 8, 16, 32 bits to count or represent somrething and we use base 10 because its easy to multiply or divide, but base 20?

nameless22 t1_j9z0tfj wrote on February 25, 2023 at 4:44 PM

Many peoples and languages across time use base 20 or other non-decimal (12/60 is a well known one).

CreatrixAnima OP t1_j9yuatg wrote on February 25, 2023 at 4:00 PM

The benefit is that it falls in line with their language. One of the challenges that the children have is that they don’t have enough characters in base 10 to represent the numerals that they have in their own language. This system allows them to work with the language they already have.