Category talk:Positional numeral systems
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I set up this category to avoid various lists of "see also" links in each article, linking the others.
Is there a way of sorting the links on this category page in a more intelligent way? The system I'm using presently is to pipe each categorization as blank-blank-digit for one-digit bases (2-9, e.g. " 2") and as blank-digit-digit for two-digit bases (10-99, e.g. " 16"). No articles on bases higher than 99 seem to exist (so far!). If you think the system will work up to 999 you are wrong - beginning with 100, annoying headings like 1 (for 100-199) etc. would appear on the category page.
There is also an article series defined by the table "Table Numeral Systems" (included on this page), but its focus is on numeral systems used by different cultures, rather than the math of different bases. In fact, it would make sense to remove binary, octal and hexagesimal from this table, as no cultures seem to use these (unless computers or computer specialists are considered a culture).
[edit] Non-standard positional numeral systems
I have addressed certain issues by creating the article Non-standard positional numeral systems, and making related changes to Unary numeral system, Golden ratio base, Quater-imaginary base, Positional notation, Base (mathematics), and Category:Positional numeral systems. I suggest further discussion of these issues takes place at talk:Non-standard positional numeral systems.--Niels Ø 14:42, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
