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| | SpiritArt: Numbers |
 | | As you may have noticed I extended the range of digits from 0-9 and then additionally A-Z treating them as 11, 12, 13 and so on, just for illustration purposes (even though this is common in computer-science to display hexadecimal numbers this way). |
 | | Some number-systems have been named binary (base 2), ternary (base 3): quaternary (base 4), quinary (base 5), senary (base 6), septenary (base 7), octenary (or octal, base 8), nonary (base 9), denary (or decimal), undenary (base 11), duodecimal (base 12), hexadecimal (base 16), vigesimal (base 20), and sexagesimal (base 60). |
 | | It maybe is also worth to mention that beside decimal-system also other system are still strong in our western culture embedded: the base 12 counting- or number-system, the dozen, or the way we count our time now: |
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