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| date | title | scripts | draft | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-04-14 | Kaktovik numerals |
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I just saw a Scientific American article about the recent inclusion in Unicode of the Kaktovik Numerals, a base-20 counting system invented in 1990 by schoolchildren in northern Alaska.
Let's do some counting!
Apple-inator
- 🍏 + 🍏Apples
Seems pretty easy, right? I had it group apples in rows, so it's easier to visually see how many apples you have.
Let's use 🍊 instead of 🍏🍏🍏🍏🍏, to make it even easier to see how many rows we have.
Apple-inator
- 🍏 + 🍏Fruit
Apples
Apple-inator
- 🍏 + 🍏Kaktovik
Fruit
Apples
Arabic
Can you see how the number of left-and-right lines is the number of complete rows of apples, and the number of up-and-down lines is the number of apples left?