A video by Veritasium that gives a relatively low level introduction to the p-adic number system. It was 'low' enough that I understood most of it. 🙂 It also gives me a better appreciation of the @gregeganSF story, "3-adica".
#numbers #padic #numbersystems
"John William Shirley (1908–1988) published reproductions of two of Harriot’s undated manuscript pages, which, he claimed, showed that Harriot had invented binary numeration “nearly a century before Leibniz’s time”"
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00283-023-10271-9
Via Hacker News [ https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00283-023-10271-9 ]
#History #Mathematics #Numbers #NumberSystems #BinaryNumbers
#history #mathematics #numbers #numbersystems #binarynumbers
@elysdir Thinking about it, the #Kaktovik numerals remind me very much of the #Maya numerals
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_numerals which also use a combination of base 5 and base 20. Not surprisingly the two may be culturally related, given the flow of people and information across the American continent.
#NumberSystems #math
#math #numbersystems #maya #kaktovik
Addition, subtraction and division are surprisingly visual with Kaktovik numerals.
Don’t miss the Unicode request document with examples, which was approved: http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2021/21058-kaktovik-numerals.pdf
Did I mention I love #NumberSystems? The subject has been a special interest of mine off and on throughout my life.
#numbersystems #actuallyautistic
Fascinating story about alternative #numberSystems from #indigenous people taking hold today!
Is #Zero More Than #Nothing ? Introducing the #ZeroProject
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUVN7E1wiBs&ab_channel=CloserToTruth
#Philosophy #Counting #Numbers #NumberSystem #NumberSystems #Arithmetic #Mathematics #Math #Maths #Representation #Metaphysics #Nothingness #Integers #Algebra #Null #Nihilism #0 #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn
#RobertKuhn #CloserToTruth #nihilism #null #algebra #integers #nothingness #metaphysics #representation #maths #math #mathematics #arithmetic #numbersystems #numbersystem #numbers #counting #philosophy #ZeroProject #nothing #zero