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Why We Might Use Different Numbers in the Future

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*Creator*
Jade Tan-Holmes

*Script*
Thank you to script writer Simon Morrow for your work on this video.
simonmorrow.com

*Music*
https://www.epidemicsound.com/

Knot Numbers - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangle_(mathematics)

*Sources*
Excursions Into Mathematics by Beck, Bleicher, Crowe
“What’s in a name?”, which was written by Michael Bleicher
Realm of Numbers by Isaac Asimov
Asimov on Numbers by Isaac Asimov
https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~matuszek/cit590-2015/Pages/balanced-ternary.html
https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Balanced_ternary
Imaginary Number Bases by Philip Herd: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1701.04506.pdf

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