The Ancient Egyptians also used base 2 multiplication.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_multiplicatio...
Re:Apple introduces macOS Mojave
by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Monday June 04, 2018 @09:23PM
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To a certain extent, one could consider Chinese characters to be more like emoji than words constructed via a phonetic alphabet, in which case there never really was a transition period, just some backwater outliers.
What if printed words were really just a transitional state of language until their purest form, emoji!