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scott_s on Nov 7, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Scenes from Earth on the Voyager Spacecraft

Using dots to indicate what number we mean with our glyphs doesn't scale. So we need an intermediate notation to bootstrap the process.

georgieporgie on Nov 8, 2011 [–]

I don't recall any base two which wasn't next to dots.

scott_s on Nov 8, 2011 | [–]

7 and higher: http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/images/image003.gif

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