What about V for 5? There’s only 2 people I ever saw make a V with their hand. Spock, and Vader.
No, not Darth Vader. I mean the OTHER Vader.
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Trex202@lemmy.world 3 days agoPossibly an archaic way? They also counted Base 12.
What about V for 5? There’s only 2 people I ever saw make a V with their hand. Spock, and Vader.
No, not Darth Vader. I mean the OTHER Vader.
Back to the Future’s “Darth Vader from the planet Vulcan” begs to differ. 🖖
It’s archaic, we just don’t count like this anymore. Probably not since adoption of Arabic Numbers
cattywampas@lemm.ee 3 days ago
The Romans didn’t use base 12. Roman numerals aren’t a positional system.