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Originally Posted by Edge
Woa, interesting answer. Well, it seems true, there has been many mathematical languages (mayan, egiptian, etc.) and all of them were not good until the discovery of the zero, negatives, etc... This can get tricky since math can also have another base other than a decimal one...
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Not tricky, really. The base of your number system doesn't matter. All the rules of arithmatic work just as well in binary, octal, hex, base 12, whatever, as long as your numeric notation allows for ZERO. Some bases are just more 'convenient' than others.
For example, in our decimal system, thirds are a pain in the butt. But in base 12, EVERY number ending with one or more zeros, like 1000 or 200, are EVENLY divisible by 3! And by 2 and 4 and 6. But NOT by 5!
