> No Roman numerals. No Arabic numerals. No left-to-right reading direction. No assumed orientation. Something that works in a mirror, in zero gravity, in any language spoken on Earth or beyond it.
As other comments have pointed out, base 10 is a pretty big assumption though.
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That's what I thought, but in the 2nd para:
> No Roman numerals. No Arabic numerals. No left-to-right reading direction. No assumed orientation. Something that works in a mirror, in zero gravity, in any language spoken on Earth or beyond it.
As other comments have pointed out, base 10 is a pretty big assumption though.