Alternative Number System: Difference between revisions

Shopkeeper: XLIV.<ref>pronounced "ex-ell-eye-vee"</ref>

Customer: Well why don't you just '''say''' XLIV? Who can remember "forty-four?" }}

* The Minbari in ''[[Babylon 5]]'' use base eleven (a byproduct of using fingers, toes, and the head as "digits" for counting.)

** According to tie-in RPG materials, the Dilgar used base 25.

* In the ''[[Myst]]'' games, the D'ni have a base 25 system, in keeping with the games' general tendency to use powers of five as [[Arc Number]]s.

* The aliens in ''[[Iji]]'' use a ternary number system.

{{quote|"Two plus two equals...ten. In base four! I'm fine!"}}

* There is a popular theory among [[Half Life]] fans that the Combine use a base-17 system, based on how [[Arc Number|prominent]] 17 seems to be. If nothing, it reinforces the [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien|utterly alien]] nature of the Combine.