o lol ya, that is explaining the "base" part of the base 20 system.

for a base 10 system you start to repeat the numbers 0-9 after you count to the base of 10. Example: 7,8,9,10. See it pushes to 2 digits, then after 19 comes 20. again a base of 10.

In the mayan system the base stack doesn't take place until 20.

So if we take the number 33 for example, in our base 10 system that is essentially saying you have 3 "10's" and 3 "1's". But in a base 20 system you would have 1 "20" and 13 "1's"

if that makes sense.

Another way to think of it is symbolically, we in a base 10 system have a distinct "symbol" for each number 0-9, then it repeats. Mayans had a distinct "symbol" for each number 0-19. So the symbols don't repeat until the bast of 20.


Trippy to think that this was used for some high level math and astrology isnt it? not to mention a calendar far more accurate than the European one!

This post was edited by thesnipa on May 26 2016 01:49pm

ye makes sense
still dont get that second picture
and is this correct

why is there 0 and 1 for 20 and not just to - : o
and beyond that hmmmmm

also someone in south america had map of antarctica without ice

or is it a hoax

use my example and look at that 2nd pic, thats why i used the # 33. because the pic shows a 33.

Which is a symbol for 13 in the lowest slot, and a symbol for 1 in the middle slot. aka 13 "1's" and 1 "20", 13+20=33


for that 20 thing. There is 1 "20" and 0 "1's". Just like the number 10 in our base 10 system includes a zero, aka 1 "10" and 0 "1's".

This post was edited by thesnipa on May 26 2016 02:29pm

i get that but 126 1002 etc not

same concept but in another dimension.

So for every # 1-399 you only have the 2 symbols maximum. But for ever # for 400-7999 its 3 symbols.

This is because 20 * 20 = 400. So you can think of a base 20 system as having symbols for the # of 1's, 20's, and 400's

so for the # 401 the notation would be Symbol 1 in the 1's column, zero in the 20's column, and 1 in the 400's column.

don't ask me how they did multiplication, that hurts my brain just to think about.

Terra Australis, a great southern continent, essentially a combination of Australia and Antarctica.
Nothing says that there was no ice on it from that map, I'm not sure what you are sourcing for this information.
No doubt that some South Americans could have traveled to Antarctica being just 1000km away, but that map is european.

hmm havent understood this yet



ye i knew pretty much nothing about it so there's that cheers

ive attempted to explain it from i believe 3 different perspective lol. id suggest watching a youtube video or something, that last one is about as far as i can break it down. My guess is your brain is hard wired into the base 10 system so deeply you cant even conceptualize the base 20 system beyond the 2nd step. Its actually quite common, base20 is a very difficult mathematical concept.

i instantly get the first one which you tried to explain again. the third one i didnt get how's 399 for example if not shitload of 20 stacks? hmmmmm

399 = 19 "20'S" AND 1 "19" symbol

400 = 20 "20's", which puts it up to the next category of symbols into the 3rd column. The same way that in our base 10 system going over 9 of any number pushes it to the next column so to speak.