By Arnold Buffum Chace (The rhind mathematical papyrus (1929)) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Common
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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 off-shoot 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.
