(04-01-2026, 03:27 PM)Jorge_Stolfi wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Well, if "a" means 1, and 1 means "k", then "a" means "k". That would be a simple alphabetic substitution cipher. And those were already excluded...
In that particular scenario, the digit 1 could also form part of a compound such as K (10) or X (21).
11o9o10o5 19o8o9o18 6o14o17 5o21o1o12o15o11o5
1417 o51118o5 12o122o2o5 11o910o5 19o8o918
(Note twenty-five tokens of "1" versus no tokens at all of "3", plus reduced entropy....)
But again, I wasn't intending to promote any specific numerical hypothesis, and certainly not that one. I'm just pointing out that an argument against one particular numerical system -- a sequentially numbered word list -- doesn't serve as an argument against a numerical system in general.