Base 9 on the Whorl?

Andy Robertson · 11 May 2002, 18:25 · from urth-v0205.mbox · original

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From: "Andy Robertson" <andywrobertson at clara.co.uk>
Subject: Re: (urth) Base 9 on the Whorl?
Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 19:25:24 +0100
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----- Original Message -----=20
From: "Robert Borski" <rborski at charter.net>
To: <urth at urth.net>
Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2002 7:07 PM
Subject: (urth) Base 9 on the Whorl?

> In _Nightside the Long Sun_, on p. 29, Wolfe has Maytera Marble presiding
> over a mathematics lesson, "watching the children take nineteen from
> twenty-nine and get nine, add seven and seventeen and get twenty-three."
>
>=20
Uh

Either:

1)  They are actually from PLANET ZOG

http://home.clara.net/andywrobertson/zogcount.html

Or=20

2) The children are in their childish way making mistakes.

By the way 7 + 17 =3D 25 in base 9

    hartshorn

--=20

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