Saturday, March 14, 2015

A Question of Attestation

Does anyone know of a language that is

  • written with an alphabet that normally uses the arabic numerals and
  • has a non-decimal base and
  • and permits writing numbers using that non-decimal base using arabic numerals?
The other base might be marked by some symbol (or might be implicit from context). Maybe something like
yada yada yada (1234) yada yada yada => yada yada yada 668 yada yada yada
In this case, octal is marked by parentheses. This might be a bit curios, but parentheses are used as punctuation in ways that differs significantly from their English use in some languages. However, I admit they might be even more confusing due to their use in maths, so maybe something like
yada yada yada  81234 yada yada yada.
If this isn't attested, I claim it for Tatediem (but with Bryatesle numbers instead).

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