I see what you did there!

And stylish!

I still can't understand why food and clothes use 和 and 洋 to differentiate if they are Japanese or Western, but for music and film they use 邦楽 and 邦画 to denote them being Japanese.

Honestly they could be their own channel

Haha, I don't know how they'd do with something more complex like that. But that would be a cool assignment to see what they come-up with

Thanks for setting the record straight. I am not surprised that there are errors here - I made this a few years before Brady interviewed Chris for Numberphile, and there weren't quite as many details available back then. Glad Chris' story is getting spread further than my little channel though!

I hear it's been "fixed" now unfortunately. They put in a slight twist to the railings to make it stop humming...

Good to know! I am far from a Francophone so I just gave it my best guess at pronunciation, but I can see how pronunciation matters when it has to fit in the lyrics of a song!

@@ferretsenseiwell it's not particularly a lyric, I just found out from other studies the pronunciation of his name. Twenty one pilots just mentions Nicolas bourbaki which opens up this whole study :)

Bless the algorithm for bringing you here! Thanks for the sub and the kind words!

Not gonna' lie, playing "MLB slugfest" to capture the perfect nutshot for this video was pretty fun.

Indeed, but I imagine 19th century Arizonians had little to no experience seeing camels so I can understand why they might call it a horse. Incidentally, there used to be camelid species native to North America, which were more closely related to Llamas and Alpacas, but they went extinct thousands of years ago. They are a kind of sagebrush that no other animals can digest. When the camel corps was introduced to this area, the camels started eating it, restarting a long broken food chain!

@@ferretsensei yeah oh in the story I find out that someone said that the red ghost killed and devoured a grizzly bear

@@aaronfairbanks4602 - imagine having that kind of a camel in your army! Bear-eating camels! It sounds like the title of a Jeff Minter game!

@@ferretsensei okay but I hear it what someone say at the story of the red ghost

@@ferretsensei and I don't have army

Thanks so much for the like and the sub! Plenty more retro game content to come, and I wouldn't be surprised if it has to do with Zelda games.

@@ferretsensei Thank you for your reply ! If you are interested in the nostalgic game culture of Japan, please subscribe to my channel !

Glad you liked it!

In this case, the sub-base of 5 just means the horizontal strokes are increments of 5 rather than keeping vertical strokes going on the bottom. So you don't switch to a new register until you reach 20, but you can count 1's and 5's in different parts of the same character. In other cultures this was done with a dot. I suppose if you did a duodecimal version of this, the sub-base would be 3?? So every group of 3 would be counted up at the top with a maximum of 3 horizontal strokes (equalling 9) and then up to 2 vertical strokes until you start over again at 12. If you wanted the sub base to be 6, you'd need up to 5 vertical strokes, so the balance between top and bottom would be sorta weird. A sub base of 3 seems better for aesthetics...

There's definitely something for everyone here. I've lived here for almost 20 years and still find things to surprise myself all the time. I hope you make it out to Japan one day.

I appreciate that feedback. Maybe we'll get there one day, but for now I am just happy people are watching and enjoying the videos. Especially people like you who take the time to leave kind and considerate comments! Thanks again!

This isn't directly related to your comment, but I remember as a kid watching a movie where a boat abandoned it's entire cargo of horses into the ocean and watching those poor horses desperately swimming into oblivion sort of traumatized me. It's like watching that famous Artax scene from Neverending Story times 100. I don't know what movie that was and never looked it up because I don't want to see it again!

Believe it or not, I actually have never played any of the pokemon games. My younger brother left one in this Gameboy so maybe I will give it a try.

@@ferretsensei I'll say it aged terribly, but growing with it, with the whole phenomenon surrounding it, it's really an artifact of its time. I'd recommend playing either the remakes of the first two gens or, a controversial opinion, but I think the let's go games on switch removes a lot of the tedium associated with those game. While young me would have hated it, grown up me loved it. I already crunch spread sheets all day long, no need to do it again at home. (funnily enough, I am still obsessed with satisfactory in spite of this, go figure)

Thanks for the encouraging words. I feel like there are lots of fun stories to be told through the lens of video games.

Had to Google that one - I had no idea there was a song about him!

@@ferretsensei ooooh you have no clue... You have summoned a fanbase without even knowing it. If you decide to jump in this rabbit hole, we welcome you, but be prepared, there's a lot and it might seem crazy, but it's our crazy and we love it.

I appreciate that. I've got lots of ideas - hopefully they're entertaining!

Thanks so much. Yeah, a good network is essential, and learning how to actually ask for help from that network is the hardest part for me.

I think there is a lot of cross-over between retro gamers and PowerPoint connoisseurs!

Thanks for the kind words. Hope the videos don't disappoint

Hey fellow ferret! Thanks for the words of encouragement and sharing your own experience. It's always a pleasant surprise how supportive the KZfaq community can be.

At least for very basic operations, yes!

That's always seemed so strange to me, since the numbers used in the West are called "hindu-arabic" numerals!

I don't unfortunately, but I'd love to know if it is documented somewhere.

They do all look really similar, it's like if we counted using only tally-marks.

@@ferretsensei I just realised that it could be a disadvantage when you need to quickly distinguish them from afar, like on a digital clock or a traffic sign. Even though we also have similar symbols that can sometimes get mixed up (3 8; 1 7; 3 5...).

@@ferretsensei Why did youtube remove my reply?

I've never used an abacus but it does seem similar in principle.

East Is Up |-/

Culture is definitely evolving all the time in subtle and dramatic ways, including language and food-culture as well.

It could be reworked a bit but itd be ½ as cool

Pi in base 20 is: 3.2GCEG9GBHJ9D2... So in Kaktovic it would be 𝋃.𝋂𝋐𝋌𝋎𝋐𝋉𝋐𝋋𝋑𝋓𝋉𝋍𝋂... (You will need a font that can display Kaktovic unicode characters.)

If they dont have a decimal/radix then invent one for your system