Erina Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 (edited) Human beings that I have grown up around like to round numbers up, and fixate on one hundred, or a million, and more more commonly a billion in financial terms. I've never heard anybody say that they want to be a £950,000 thousand-aire, but a millionaire perhaps, yes. However, this is likely because we in the West use a base-10 system. But what of other base systems.. e.g. the "Yuki" language of California (USA) count the webbing between the digits on their hands and thus use base-8 (octal) system. In such a system, what would be the equivalent of "I would like to be a millionaire" ? Edited November 5, 2022 by Erina American -> British manners Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathematic Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 The base doesn't matter. It'a \\;s a language issue. What is big? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erina Posted November 5, 2022 Author Share Posted November 5, 2022 Maybe it's a human thing, but on an base-5 system like the Romans used it could be 5000, which is V with a bar over the top of it ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dimreepr Posted November 6, 2022 Share Posted November 6, 2022 15 hours ago, Erina said: Maybe it's a human thing, but on an base-5 system like the Romans used it could be 5000, which is V with a bar over the top of it ? If it's a human thing, maybe it's based on the number of knuckles we have on one fingure, i.e. one, two, many. with a fist over the top... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erina Posted November 7, 2022 Author Share Posted November 7, 2022 (edited) I wish I understood your humour. Edited November 7, 2022 by Erina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Endy0816 Posted November 8, 2022 Share Posted November 8, 2022 If they use the same symbols (0-8) could still end up using 1,000,000 though it would represent a different value(8^6). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erina Posted November 8, 2022 Author Share Posted November 8, 2022 Mathematics is very accommodating like that. My question though is what is the equivalent of that round figure when eight is the highest, would it be 64,000 ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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