RE: Mathematics An Alien Language?
March 16, 2015 at 6:12 pm
(This post was last modified: March 16, 2015 at 6:16 pm by I_am_not_mafia.)
(March 16, 2015 at 4:15 am)Smaug Wrote: By the way, I'd say that the existance of numerical methods is one of the best examples of the limits not only of the means of computation but also of Math itself.
I'm remembering that one!
(March 16, 2015 at 6:09 pm)Surgenator Wrote:(March 16, 2015 at 8:03 am)Little lunch Wrote: If aliens had their own mathematics, wouldn't it be based on how many fingers/tentacles they have?
The human species have used base 60, and 20 in the past. Computers use base 8,16,32, or 64. Some electronics use base 14. So the number of fingers or tentacles doesn't necessarily lead to the base people use.
I find it surprising that the human species hasn't settled on base 11.
