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Real base 60 would be way too many glyphs.



Less than 1% of what Chinese has


Not for numbers.

零一二三四五六七八九十百千萬億 is all you need to get into the billions. It's not as practical for computation, though.


There are people who know more Chinese glyphs than just the numbers, implying it is possible to learn 60 glyphs.


Not an example of a sane system.




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