History of Number system/Talk

	Revision 9 . . September 6, 2001 6:55 am by Zundark [unciae, 11 and 12]
	Revision 8 . . September 6, 2001 6:23 am by (logged).192.137.xxx

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::I see what you mean now: uncia / quincunx / septunx / deunx. But fractions don't really count as a number system, as you say. --Zundark

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But the word "eleven" is related to the word "one", and similarly "twelve" is related to "two". This is not obvious in modern Germanic languages, but it's quite clear in Gothic "ainlif" and "twalif". So they are still decimal, but expressed in a different way. --Zundark