Interesting Links for 29-04-2023
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andrewducker- 1. Unrecord - First Perdon Shooter games have now reached the point where they're uncomfortably realistic.
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- 2. On women's rage
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- 3. Vertical farming is dying
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- 4. Anyone know anything about non-European musical notation?
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- 5. Puppy! Meets! Kittens!
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- 6. How Edinburgh University got its awe inspiring graduation hall
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Date: 2023-04-29 06:45 pm (UTC)Okay, so I don't have twitter, and certainly don't intend to get it now that Musk is driving it into the ground (not that I intended to before, but you know) so can somebody else, not me, maybe reply to this person in the thread and let them know that, actually, lots of languages have numeric systems around base-5, base-20, base-12, and occasionally odder ones like base-21? And maybe respond to some other people in that subthread that the French system of counting with scores is not universal among speakers of French, and many longstanding French-speaking communities have words like "octante" or "huitante" for 80 rather than "four score"?
It's suddenly urgent to me that everybody knows this.
If not everybody, then at least you now know this :)
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Date: 2023-04-29 06:52 pm (UTC)