Ivo Schneider
> Milo Gardner expresses a small degree of increculity:
>
>> The recent post that cited 0-4 counting as base 4 may have meant
>> base 5, as Egyptians from the Lower Kingdom may have practiced,
>> as Greek may have been told by oral histories.
>
> Yet, I assure you that my citation is accurate. Sturmius,
> sometime a little before 1700, indeed invested more than a dozen
> pages to the virtues and arithmetic properties of base 4 arithmetic,
> and cited both Aristotle and Wallis to back his claims.
>
> I was surprised, too.
>
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