Why alphabets are not used as numbers
Greeks did use alphabets as numbers but they got too weary.
"The Greeks—perhaps following the Phoenicians—did have this idea, though. Actually, they had a slightly different idea. Their idea was to label the sequence of numbers by the sequence of letters in their alphabet. So alpha was 1, beta was 2, and so on."
But binary with only two symbols worked great with ever increasing positions because computers dont mind as long as there is memory.
This gets deeper and deeper.
abjad - Arabic way of writing 1 to 1000.
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