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Importance
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then only in an instrumental not a primary,
fundamental sense.
Normists defend the
primacy of norms or values
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45.LNW-80th Northern Mid- Yule
Is
80 Any Interesting?
What counts in the radix-10 system is that 80 = 8*10, and
that other numbers between 71 and 89 are not of the same
interest.
In the radix-16 system it is that 80 = 5*16, and that other
numbers between 65 and 95 are not of the same
interest.
The weight of such an interest depends on the reason
for using the numeral system in question.
So long as 80 deserves no more attention than 79, 81 or any other
number, integer or natural number, 80 is simply a number which
equals 79+1 and 81-1 on the zero-level of iteration, which is the level
of addition and subtraction (where nothing is
repeated).
Also on the first level of iteration, the one of
multiplication and division,
80 is just 1*80, 2*40, 4*20, 5*16 or 8*10 and vice versa, while 80
(unlike 4, 8 and 16) does not play a role on the higher levels of
iteration.
When 80 arouses an attention for which there is no
independent substantive reason, it is because 80 is in a
sense thought or felt to be 'numerically significant'.
What counts in the radix-10 system is that 80 = 8*10, a multiple of 10,
albeit an ordinary one.
Nevertheless, the fact that 80 = 5*16 as well gives the
number 80 the same type of numerical significance in the
radix-16 system.
From the point of view of numerical significance 80
attracts more attention than 71 to 79 and than 81 to 89 in the radix-10
system, but not more than 70 and 90.
In the radix-16 system, however, 80 attracts more
attention than 65 to 79 and than 81 to 95, but not more than
64 and 96.
Whether the number 80 also deserves the extra attention it
arouses depends ultimately on the quality of the reasoning by which the
radix(es) of the numeral (super)system were or —more
importantly— will be chosen.
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