[vog]

Sorry for the nitpick, but that's not really "base 1".

It is "unary", which is completely different encoding than the "positional notations" such as decimal, octal, binary, etc. The positional notation doesn't work with base 1, as in that notation there would be only 0, and 0, 00, 000, etc., which all mean the same number: zero.

[pilsetnieks]

That I agree on, it is conceptually different (and more primitive); the whole conversation just reminded me of GEB.