Re: The power of ten

From: gordon brown (gbrown@euclid.colorado.edu)
Date: Sat Mar 29 2003 - 17:33:34 EST

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I don't claim to have any special expertise in the ancient history of
mathematics, but I would suggest that we might find clues to the number
base that a people used by looking at their language. For example, the
prehistoric Indo-European language has been reconstructed, and it had a
simple word for 100, suggesting that the people used base 10.

Gordon Brown
Department of Mathematics
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0395

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