Subj : Re: Name for base-30 numbering system?
To   : comp.programming,sci.math
From : hrubin
Date : Thu Jul 21 2005 12:07 pm

In article <874qaoeieg.fsf@benpfaff.org>,
Ben Pfaff  <blp@cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
>I am dealing with a software file format that represents
>floating-point numbers in base 30 (!).  Does anyone have a name
>for this base?  I found a webpage that said base 13 is called
>"tredecimal", but I couldn't find any with a name for base 30.

Trigesimal.
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