c/coolguides · by clitoris@kbin.social · 3yGuide to Cistercian Numerals 86 points · 10 comments · view on lemmy.world
10 Comments
danteog@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 3y
Thanks clitoris
clitoris@kbin.social · 7 pts · 3y
no problem
norbert@kbin.social · 6 pts · 3y
Where have you been? Seems like I can never find you when I need to.
StinkyDave@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y
I don't see a zero.
Tavarin@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3y
The other poster got you, but also European mathematics didn't really use zero in medieval times. The idea of zero only made it to Europe in the 11th century, but took a long time to become widely adopted.
KairuByte@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y
I
StinkyDave@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
Brilliant
antonymous@kbin.social · 3 pts · 3y
Now I have memories from trying to figure out the alphabet in Tunic...
soundasleep@kbin.social · 3 pts · 3y
If they'd used binary with 5 options (
‾ _ | / \) for 4 positions, they could have gone up to 2^20 = ~1 million...