illestpreachaOct 14

FieldofBase20

#mathart #mathober2025 #mathober #mathober24 #NumberFields #design #Base20

Blogpost: https://blog.illestpreacha.com/mathober2025numberfields

For my 19th sketch of Mathober2025 (curated by @fractalkitty ) coded in #P5js @processing ( remixed of a previous sketch), FieldofBase20 takes the 24th prompt of “Number Field” and makes a grid of Base20 numbers which are part of the field of rational numbers.

#Poetry

Numbers Field
Numbers Grid
Numbers wheel
Numbers Feel
Numbers Filled

#creativecoding #coding
#newmedia #scifi #animation
#math #numerical #numbers

Earthling of the RhineJan 1, 2022
I was recently blown away by the Kaktovik numerals developed by Iñupiat middle school students in 1994, which make arithmetic much easier and are base-20:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaktovik_numerals
Another indigenous group, the Maya, used a similar base-20 system:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_numerals
I'm thinking of applying something like these to a base-12 system for a language I'm playing with, though base-60 isn't looking bad either (used by the Sumerians among others):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexagesimal
#numerals #math #base20
Kaktovik numerals - Wikipedia