This week was all about different number systems that other cultures use

By Arnold Buffum Chace (The rhind mathematical papyrus (1929)) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

This week was all about different number systems that other cultures use, as well as different processes. As an offshoot from that, for this week’s discussion let’s build our own number system!

What do you want to do? Here are some specific questions to think about:

What would the numbers look like? Would you make them easy to write, or complicated to discourage forgery?

Would you like our system to be simply grouping, multiplicative, positional, or something else?

What sort of base number do you want it to have: 10? 20? 50? 130?

Can we perform operations on our system? What would those look like?

Don’t limit your discussion to just these questions. You all as a group need to develop the number system and then we’ll see how well it can be put into action.

 

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Number systems

1= *            10= *#                 50= ~                100= ~~

2= **          20= *#*#             40= *#~             200=~~~~

3= ***        30=*#*#*#          70= ~*#*#          300= ~~~~~~

The base of our number system is 50. There is no number zero in the number and are made up from the keys on a computer. We have used the symbols *, # and ~ basically because they are found in every computer and phone…………………………

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