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noodles
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I said I'd write a better answer when I got round to it. That was about two years ago, but here goes... In the base 12 number system, there is no symbol for 12, just as in the base 10 number system there is no symbol for 10. Sticking with the # and % that the original poster used for ten and eleven, we have the numbers: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, #, %. When we want to write twelve, we don't have to invent a new symbol, we just write "10". This is 1 x twelve + 0 x one, in exactly the same way as "10" in the base ten system is 1 x ten + 0 x one. When you get to twenty-four, the next multiple of 12, you just write "20" (twenty three, of course is written 1% - being one times twelve plus "%" times one). I've no idea what your arbitrarily long strings of "@"'s are all about - the symbol "@" doesn't even exist in base 12 - and since we don't have arbitrarily long strings of symbols in base 10, why would you expect them to appear base 12?
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