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On 08/04/2015 01:59, Gregory Ewing wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
>> What digits would you use for base one-million?
>
> Interesting question. Unicode currently has about
> 75,000 CJK characters, so we would need to find about
> 12 more independently developed cultures with similar
> writing systems to get enough characters. I suggest
> revisiting the issue when interstellar travel and
> exploration have been better developed.
>

If it's available during PyCon can't we borrow the time machine? :)

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence