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by tempestn 830 days ago
One cool thing about the purely additive notation is that you can then add numbers together by just gathering up all their characters, sorting largest to smallest, and combining any groups of 5 or more.
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tempestn 829 days ago
Or in one step, by combining them from smallest to largest, combining and carrying as you go.
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