That is exactly what they do in numbering systems with more then 10 base digits. In Hexidecimal,for example, 0-9 are the same, but A=10, B=11, C=12, D=13, E=14, and F=15. So you'd write the decimal number 16 as 10 in Hex, and decimal 31 would be 1F.
Of course in octal or binary there are fewer then 10 base digits and things get truely strange 8o)
YIS
Andri
---- Angelica wrote:
>
> But, but, but...
>
> A numeral is just the symbol for the idea of a number. We could as
> well use letters. If you assign 1 to a, the first letter
> of the alphabet, and so on, g + h = m.
>
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