octodecimal
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base-15, base-17, base-18, equivalent, expansive, heptadecimal, quinquedecimal
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Having eight times ten faces.
Using eighteen as the base.
Octodecimal 1249 is equivalent to decimal 6561 or nonary 10000.
The decimal scheme should have been made a duodecimal, or better a quinquedecimal or octodecimal one; the expansive system would need a more than India-rubber elasticity to include all the whimsical creations of an author's brain.
Pertaining to eighteen.
I say very considerably greater than, because only a certain number of the terms which satisfy the required conditions of order and weight actually appear in the octodecimal invariant in question.
18 modes of archery and use of other implements of war (Adavuyal and Ayudhet prayogangal), 18 kinds of manners and customs (Nattacharangal) and there seems to be something of importance in this octodecimal division.
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3Octodecimal 1249 is equivalent to decimal 6561 or nonary 10000.
WiktionaryThe decimal scheme should have been made a duodecimal, or better a quinquedecimal or octodecimal one; the expansive system would need a more than India-rubber elasticity to include all the whimsical c
WiktionaryBy studying other number system such as unodecimal (base-11), duodecimal (base-12), tridecimal (base-13), quadrodecimal (base-14), pentadecimal (base-15), heptadecimal (base-17), octodecimal (base-18)
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