<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">There is a real life answer to this puzzle in which you don't have to change anything, like you do in the clock example, though that is imaginative. bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 3:09 PM SR Ballard <<a href="mailto:sen.otaku@gmail.com">sen.otaku@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">That is the worst handwritten 50 I think I have ever seen. <br><br><div>And here I was trying to think about a system of math based on base 50 system with no indexation of pos/neg and/or an absolute value system.</div><div><br></div><div>Occam’s razor I suppose. </div><div><br></div><div>Suppose in this system 0+100 would be better notated as 0+2(50). </div><div><br></div><div>I actually kind of enjoyed this exercise. It could also be viewed as distance on the circle from a predetermined location, you can’t get more than 50 away because you’d be off the circle. </div><div><br>On Nov 13, 2018, at 1:48 PM, Will <<a href="mailto:steinberg.will@gmail.com" target="_blank">steinberg.will@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">A clock, with 0 at the 12 o'clock position, counting up to 50 at 6 o'clock, and counting back down to 0 on the other half.<div><br></div><div>Picture: <a href="https://imgur.com/a/mb93qDG" target="_blank">https://imgur.com/a/mb93qDG</a></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 10:23 AM William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><div class="gmail_default">50+ 50 = 0</div><div class="gmail_default">50 + 10 = 40</div><div class="gmail_default">50 - 10 = 40</div><div class="gmail_default">30 + 20 = 50 OR 10</div><div class="gmail_default">10 + 10 = 0 OR 20</div><div class="gmail_default">0 + 100 = 0</div><div class="gmail_default">48 + 4 = 48 OR 44</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">I will send more if needed.</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">bill w</div></div></div>
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