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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Leave it to the Persians to be difficult. I wonder what-all they used to count on to come up with sixteen? Let's see: Ten fingers, unless you don't count the thumbs; ten toes, unless you don't count... no, they're all toes, so unless you had some cut off by a Spartan... or, maybe they used dance steps...  |
If I remember, 16 was some sort of holy number or something. Honestly, I'm surprised I've remembered this much of the class. And the writing is triangles based on arrangments of lines, so maybe (left leaning triangle pointing down) might represent 2. Something complicated along those lines. So the test would have questions like (left leaning triangle pointing down + left leaning triangle pointing right) = _________ in base 16, which is _________ in base 8, which is __________ in base 10.
I passed. Barely.