Lorewegian 📚 on Nostr: the difference between having one digit in your counting system and having two or ...

the difference between having one digit in your counting system and having two or more is pretty significant.

with only a single digit, you need it to be 1 to be able to count, and 0 would just be an empty space. a very literal representation of an amount.

adding zero is what gives you multiplicative positions in multiples of the radix. you simply can't have that with less than 2 digits.