The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison ...

Our number system is a decimal system, or base ten system, meaning it's built powers of ten. Numbers less than ten are represented by one of ten digits, numbers from ten to a hundred (which equals ...

Do you see how a Dewey Decimal system for the Web would increase the quality of life for large numbers of people on this planet? Simply stated, their information needs would be better met.

But p alindromic primes depend on the particular number system being used: binary palindromes are completely different than decimal palindromes.

In the remote Arctic almost 30 years ago, a group of Inuit middle school students and their teacher invented the Western Hemisphere's first new numeral system in more than a century. The ...