Re: [HM] base 5
Ken Pledger (Ken.Pledger@vuw.ac.nz)
Tue, 13 Apr 1999 09:24:48 +1200
> When I was a student (must have been about 1980) there was an article
> in New Scientist proposing a decimal system but with digits representing
> -4, -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 so that 16 would have been written as
> "2 (-4) ". The benefit is that multiplication tables are much fewer and
> simpler. I can't recall whether a history was given for this system.
>
> Tony Mann
> ....
> Email: A.Mann@gre.ac.uk
> http://www.gre.ac.uk/~A.Mann
See J. Halcro Johnston, "The reverse notation," Blackie 1938.
Ken Pledger.