[NBLUG/talk] Invention of the Unary Number System

[Steve Zimmerman]

> On Mon, 19 May 2003, Steve Zimmerman wrote:
> > 0	.... "1"
> > 00	.... "2"
> > 000	.... "3"
> > 0000 	.... "4"
> > 00000	.... "5"
> > etc.
> >
> > : -)
>
> So if I wanted to send you the number "1", then the number "2", and then
> the number "3", how would I encode that?
>
> Unary:     000000
> Decimal:   123
> Or is it:  321
> or maybe:  213
> How about: 6
>
> In order for this to work, you need a way to signal the end of a number
> and the start of the next one.  I could, for example, write it "0 00 000",
> but then I am using a zero and a space (binary).
>
> Andru

You'd write out 123 zeroes.  It's a joke, sheesh  : -)
I love your scholarship, though, and that's not a joke.