From: "Andy Robertson" 
Subject: Re: (urth) Base 9 on the Whorl?
Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 19:25:24 +0100

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From: "Robert Borski" 
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Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2002 7:07 PM
Subject: (urth) Base 9 on the Whorl?


> In _Nightside the Long Sun_, on p. 29, Wolfe has Maytera Marble presiding
> over a mathematics lesson, "watching the children take nineteen from
> twenty-nine and get nine, add seven and seventeen and get twenty-three."
>
> 
Uh

Either:

1)  They are actually from PLANET ZOG

http://home.clara.net/andywrobertson/zogcount.html

Or 

2) The children are in their childish way making mistakes.



By the way 7 + 17 = 25 in base 9


    hartshorn



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